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Adapting accac Optional Assessment Materials for Religious Education at Key Stage 2 Maldwyn Pryse & Ann Eleri Thomas. Introduction.
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Ann Eleri Thomas Spring 2007 Adapting accac Optional Assessment Materials for Religious Education at Key Stage 2Maldwyn Pryse & Ann Eleri Thomas
Ann Eleri Thomas Spring 2007 Introduction • These materials have been prepared to support the teacher assessment of pupils' levels of achievement in religious education from Year 3 to Year 6 and from level 1 to level 6. The activities and approaches may be adapted to suit a variety of topics within religious education and from the perspective of the different religions studied
Ann Eleri Thomas Spring 2007 Raising standards The four optional assessment units are designed to: • Contribute, by their use throughout the key stage, to raising of standards in religious education, by helping teachers to promote progression and to identify pupils' strengths and weaknesses • Provide schools with standard materials that can give evidence of pupils' attainment in religious education by focusing on knowledge and understanding of religious teachings, beliefs and practice, awareness of life experiences and the questions they raise and exploring and responding to religion and life experiences • Provide evidence of pupils' responses which may be included in teachers' records and portfolios designed to exemplify standards in religious education • Provide a straightforward means by which teachers can gain comparable information about their pupils' achievement in aspects of religious education at any point during the key stage evidence portfolio
Ann Eleri Thomas Spring 2007 guidance Reliable assessment materials • Provide examples of a range of valid and reliable assessment methods which teachers might use as guidance in preparing their own assessment materials • Provide examples of assessment criteria linked to the exemplar programme of study and national exemplar level descriptions for religious education • Involve pupils in the assessment process by encouraging self - assessment and developing their understanding of how to make progress in religious education • Provide opportunities for pupils to apply and develop the common requirements Formative assessment portfolio Reliable assessment materials Raising standards evidence guidance Formative assessment
Ann Eleri Thomas Spring 2007 The materials will help schools to develop the features identified by Estyn as good practice in religious education. Very good or good assessment includes: • Using, where appropriate, the level descriptions or statements of attainment in the locally agreed syllabus • Identifying, where necessary, alternative assessment criteria • Designing tasks that will provide specific evidence of what pupils know and understand about religion and human experiences and how effectively they are able to explore and respond to them • Using assessment tasks and general observation to collect and record manageable and relevant evidence of pupils' progress in religious education • Sharing with pupils their strengths and weaknesses as they emerge from the process of assessment • Showing pupils how to improve their work and setting targets for them
Ann Eleri Thomas Spring 2007 Summary of the four unitsTeacher's Handbook pages 6 & 7
Ann Eleri Thomas Spring 2007 Relationship to ACCAC's exemplar programme of study Each of the four unit booklet begins with a section indicating its relationship to ACCAC's exemplar programme of study (page 4 – 5) and to locally agreed syllabuses in Wales Each unit has a different context of study, chosen to reflect the areas of study often recommended in locally agreed syllabuses. The activities can be adapted to suit different areas of study, different religions and the resources available to the school, and the units do not have to be used as they stand. Teachers should use their professional judgement to decide which activities are appropriate for their pupils. While the activities provide assessment that interrelates all aspects of religious education, namely: • Knowledge and understanding of religious beliefs and practice • Awareness of life experiences and the questions they raise • Exploring and responding to religion and life experiences You may choose to use only one activity from a unit, thus assessing only one of these aspects
Ann Eleri Thomas Spring 2007 Worship – Sikhs – Gurdwara Unit 1What to do: guidance on using the resourcesPrior to carry out this assessment unit the following teaching and learning needs to take place; explain why Sikhs gather in the gurdwara to worship and introduce pupils to the key practices. Show pupils some artefacts/ pictures of what can be seen or used in the gurdwara. Explain the symbolism and why the rituals are performed.
Ann Eleri Thomas Spring 2007 • 1.Discuss what happens when you go into the gurdwara, including how one should dress and behave, and what happens during worship. Explain that the Sikhs also meet in the gurdwara as a community. • Show the source pictures in Pupil Resource Sheet 1 and discuss what happens. Why certain rituals are performed and certain objects used / seen, including their symbolic meanings. • Introduce Pupil Activity Sheet 1 and ask them to complete the table, and by using the information you have already provided.This information should be sufficient to enable them to produce individual information posters. More able pupils could carry out their own research. • As for further preparation for the poster ask pupils to complete the Pupil Planning Sheet to help them focus on the essential elements of worshipping in the gurdwara. • Provide pupils with paper to produce own colourful poster. • Before pupils respond to Pupil Activity Sheet 2 discuss what they have learned from working on the poster. Assess own poster. • ICT Opportunities • Pupils might wish to produce their information poster using a word processing or publishing package. They might also have the opportunities to carry out their own research using CD Rom based encyclopaedias and internet reference sites in order to provide information and illustrations
Ann Eleri Thomas Spring 2007 Worship – Sikhs – Gurdwara Unit 1Activity 2: Why do Sikhs worship in a gurdwara?You will need:Pupil Resource Sheet 2Pupil Activity Sheets 3 and 4
Have a go at assessing! Celebration Ann Eleri Thomas Spring 2007
