My Name! and The Role of Assessment

This morning's curriculum session saw one of the lead developers of GeoGebra come in and show us just a smidgen of the things it can do - amazing! One of the things we did was create functions to make our names, woohoo! Here is my attempt: http://www.geogebratube.org/student/m23067. Many more examples can be found on GeoGebra Tube.

This afternoon's PDP was on The Role of Assessment; both summative and formative assessment were discussed.

• secondary schools are being accused of "teaching to the test"
• "how do you spell catalyst" - "doesn't matter, you'll get the marks anyway"
• techniques for making the student responsible for their own development
• verbal feedback stamps: "Sir said..."