support, with minimum support and those who needed considerable support. A coding system as discussed earlier would be an ideal way of doing this. As with most of your primary lessons, you may have a teaching assistant or an Adult helper with you. Ask for their help in the informal assessment especially if they had been supporting a particular groups of students. Log the progress of the students in your class as soon as possible after (or if you can, during the lesson) a lesson (Bennett, Hamill, & Pickford, Assessment, 2007). When you have assessed your own capabilities in ICT, the ICT capability of your children and the availability of ICT, the planning for teaching and learning can begin. We will look into the other two methods later. Determining when to collecting evidence According to Raban (2011, p.22) “children’s dispositions for learning are at the heart of Learning Outcome 4” in the EYLF. There are five dispositions that fall into observable activity which include: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Taking an interest. Being involved. Persisting with difficulty. Communicating with others. Taking responsibility.
Each of these can be captured in a variety of ways.
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