Assessing Learning Online: Remote Teaching Special Part II

Rosemary Henzell reflects on the challenges of the online environment and the importance of noticing all your students and their learning... This is Part II in a three-part special series recorded during the Coronavirus situation and Public Health Orders affecting NSW. “One of my biggest takeaways from last year was the sense of being blind. I think we underestimated how much data we get from being in the classroom that we don’t even realise that we are taking in... I think we’ve all had to be quite creative with the way we have had to fill in those gaps. It’s hard and that’s the first thing we need to understand and remember... Assessment in the broadest possible sense is crucial right now... Those opportunities that we have in the online environment with interactive documents can be really helpful, and we can also do it with group projects... Having a couple of bigger things that we are working towards, I think that normalises the online environment for them, they have an expectation that we will work towards something and they will have to produce something...” For information about CPL Podcast contributors, as well as Off Class episodes, Journal of Professional Learning articles and Centre for Professional Learning courses, please visit our website www.cpl.asn.au