Secondary Education on TKI

NZQA Website: Subject Specific Pages for FRENCH

Link to the NZQA Subject Specific site: a ‘one stop shop’ for your moderation needs. You will be able to access the following:
• Clarifications of the Standards documents. These have been written to help clarify the moderation around the Writing (06/09) and the Conversation Standards (03/09).
• Moderator's Newsletter: An outline the most current issues in moderation
• You will find both the latest and past National Moderators' reports available for download.
• Students work exemplars(Links from the Moderator's Newsletter)
and information on preparing digital submissions

This site will also provide you with direct links to other helpful resources e.g. the vocab and structures lists, the external examination papers, the assessment specifications, TKI, Assessment Guidelines and Circulars.

!! Best Practice Workshops 2011: Workshops will be held in the regions spanning mid-May to late August 2011

e-Portfolios: e for Evidence

The success of ePortfolios in Learning Languages and French in particular will "depend on the availability and usability of appropriate software, on implementation in the curriculum and the widespread understanding and acceptance of the medium".(EU Leonardo eReport)
This entry aims to help you further your understanding and your investigations on how best to support your students in the gathering of evidence along their learning journey.

- Portfolio of evidence: technology pointers.

A big step to take is to decide which tools are best to gather evidence of our students' learning for assessment purposes and beyond.
The following people, from a range of backgrounds, have been working on this subject for sometime and share their experience and findings. It makes for excellent reading.

Nick Rate is currently an ICTPD National Facilitator for Core Education. As eFellow 08 he researched ePortfolios. Nick writes eLearning Infusion, his professional blog. He invites you to "clarify your purpose (pedagogy) before your technology (ePortfolio tool)", to "use the ePortfolio as the vehicle for drawing the components of effective pedagogy and assessment" in his CORE breakfast seminar presentation on ePortfolio . Nick answers 3 key questions in his subsequent blog post More ePortfolio Big Picture Question.

Jamin Lietze has been researching and leading the implementation of ePortfolios at Bethlehem College, Tauranga.
Jamin writes a professional blog called Education Investigation where you can view his findings and reflections on the "development of effective ePortfolios in NZ".
Jamin is a year 6 teacher dedicated to investigate which ICT tools are best for teaching and learning. In his blog he presents his "school's ePorfolio journey", not only sharing his findings about tools and the choices he's made but also about pedagogical issues, including ownership of students' learning, priorities etc. Recently Jamin initiated a successful ePortfolio Pedagogy Meeting, and he has established with the numerous participants The ePortfolios NZ Wiki on which you can access "a brief overview of different ePortfolio purposes", some of the "presentations delivered at the meeting" and contact names of teachers offering to show their work.
NEW Nov 2010: Jamin answers the Why? of eportfolio with his presentation "Introducing the eportfolio"

Toni Twiss is a NZC and eLearning Advisor at Waikato University. Toni has looked into tools and recommends 3 options to create students portfolios, which you can read about on her website.

The MoE is supporting the hosting of a specialist Tool: MyPortfolio (Mahara). Some beginners' information can be found in this blogpost, in the Taming IT section,  on the Mahara Demo Site.

I would like to draw your attention to the MLE Reference Group Googlegroup.  Key in Mahara or MyPortfolio once on the Topic List to access very interesting and factual information on the use of this comprehensive eportfolio tool, with conversations between teachers wanting to start with this specialist portfolio tool. 

- Portfolio of Evidence: Pedagogy Pointers.

Alongside deciding on which tools suit you and your students best, maybe in discussion with others in your school, it is crucial to plan on what evidence to gather and how to make it happen in your planning. How to guide students while leaving room for student management? What tasks to incorporate to cater for a range of need and abilities? Gunhild Litwin (LL Advisor, Massey University) ran a plenary session for the Auckland branch of the NZALT in August 2010 called "Portfolios of Evidence : a suggestion for managing self and others".
Gunhild described the initial Powerpoint presentation as "the product of over 150 teachers and me workshopping ways to manage the 1.3 portfolio standard."

UPDATE DECEMBER 2010: In the powerpoint you can download below, Gunhild has added to her initial presentation to try to clarify many of the (perceived?) problems that might hinder the successful implementation of the new assessment matrix in 2011. In particular, she provides support for the two portfolio based standards (1.3.and 1.5), as well as an attempt of a marking schedule for both of these.

Assessment for Learning

Dawn Jarbeau (Facilitator Learning Languages Yrs 7-13, Team Solutions) brings to our attention the new TKI-Assessment for Learning website, which contains all current information related to Assessment. It provides, amongst others, School Stories, guidelines for Effective use of Evidence.  The newest reference when it comes to Assessment under the New Zealand Curriculum.

Dawn has produced the document below What is Assessment for Learning?  to describe the process and demonstrate how "Assessment, Teaching and Learning are inextricably linked."