Reading for your perusal

Afternoon Rebecca,

Below is a link that takes you to a cluster of readings on a web page called:
Teachers Work: growing through critical reflection and action.

Reading in '2011 - Volume Eight: Issue One that may be of interest to you include:

An-other Look at Assessment: Assessment in Learning KERRY EARL AND DAVID GILES
This article seeks to review understandings of educational assessment as revealed in the phrases teachers use (assessment of learning, assessment for learning and assessment as learning). We propose a reconsideration of what teachers might have taken for granted in these phrases and assessment practice. We suggest that along with assessment knowledge and skills, teachers need a way of ‘being in’ assessment ...
http://www.teacherswork.ac.nz/journal/volume8_issue1/earl.pdf


Professional Dialogue as Professional Learning ANNE GREY
This article discusses professional dialogue as an important aspect of professionalism for early childhood teachers. It draws on the experiences of four qualified early childhood teachers of one teaching team in an early childhood centre who engaged in extensive professional dialogue with each other. Dialogue focused on the values that underpinned and were reflected in their teaching practice. These values were discussed in order to explore the commonalities and differences in teaching philosophies amongst the team ...
http://www.teacherswork.ac.nz/journal/volume8_issue1/grey.pdf

Effective Educative Mentoring Skills: A Collaborative Effort LYN McDONALD AND ANNALINE FLINTTeacher induction programmes provide critical support for new teachers moving into teaching. The focus of this paper is to examine and identify the specific understandings, attitudes and skills educative mentors require in supporting Provisionally Registered Teachers’ (PRTs) learning .
http://www.teacherswork.ac.nz/journal/volume8_issue1/mcdonald.pdf

Happy reading-
Joann