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Dear Educator,
As we start the new academic year we move forward with our unravelling of CCE. In this edition of the newsletter, we look at a bunch of examples of classroom activities that help for both learning and assessment.
| CONTENTSThe spirit of CCE
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Let’s relook at the spirit of CCE. It brings about a paradigm shift from —
Three words are crucial in the proper understanding of CCE — examination, evaluation and assessment. What do these words mean? The dictionary defines them as — Examination — a detailed inspection or investigation, a formal test of proficiency or knowledge. You take an exam to show your knowledge on a subject. Evaluation — to form an idea of amount or value. If you evaluate someone, you consider them in order to make a judgement about how good or bad they are. Assessment — evaluate or assess the quality, value or nature. If you assess something or someone, you consider them carefully and make a judgement about their quality or value. CCE distances itself from examination, since as educators we are not merely interested in finding out just how much knowledge a student has, particularly when that ‘knowledge’ (or information) can come from rote learning. CCE concerns itself with the learning process and assessment is a crucial component in the teaching-learning. Certain prepositions come into play when we think of assessment. Is it
We evaluate learning through assessments. We are more interested in assessment as learning, since we need to continuously assess whether students are ‘with us’ throughout. It is only after learning has taken place, can we evaluate. |
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| ASSESSING THROUGH ACTIVITIES | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| So how do we assess moment to moment, concept to concept? Through activities. Before we go off into the realm of formative assessment and summative assessment and arrive at comprehensive evaluation, let us make sure that we have facilitated comprehensive learning. Let us use activities to not only assess learning, but first, to aid learning.Let’s look at some activities in Ratna Sagar’s CCE editions. There are copious activities that will help both for learning and assessment. Needless to say, activities interest students and great learning takes place, because we are engaging them in a way that they like it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1. History Project Make a daily food chart for a week. Tick ( |
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Check yourself.
A discussion could follow the activity. We could ask students the importance of having an answer ‘Yes’ to all questions. ‘Yes, but why?’ facilitates more learning than just answering the questionnaire. The Amazon rainforest is described as the ‘Lungs of Our Planet’ because it continuously recycles carbon dioxide into oxygen. Organize a seminar on ‘The Amazon Rainforest — the Lungs of Our Planet’. We can focus on the following aspects:
OR ‘Holiday homework should be abolished’. Put some groundnut seeds on a piece of newspaper. Fold the newspaper properly. Crush the nuts with a rolling pin. Carefully open the folds. You will find oil on the paper. This shows that groundnuts have oil. Think of another concept, try the experiment and note down your observation. |
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| Students need a lot of practice in order to handle an activity for FA’s. It is not only unfair but outdated if we use the traditional ‘chalk and talk’ approach to teaching and then assess them through activities. The success of CCE is in integrating it with the teaching learning process.Let’s not be teachers, but facilitators of learning. Let us get them to learn from a range of activities, such as oral questions, quizzes, projects, seminars, assignments, surveys, observation, experiments, . . . We surely can come up with more ideas.
It is not just a pen and paper test that can help evaluate learning. Through activities and worksheets, not only do we discourage blind rote learning, but we can move through all areas of learning such as understanding, application and arriving at the HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills)
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| ENABLING CCE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
We, at Ratna Sagar, have come out with CCE editions of our English, Science and Social Science textbooks. Apart from the other unique features, they include activities that can be used for formative and summative assessment, life skills, multiple-choice questions, and more. To know more please click on the links given below or contact any of our representatives or email us at cce4u@ratnasagar.comCCE Editions of Textbooks from Ratna Sagar
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