Every teacher is Provided with the following:
Curriculum document for a specific subject
- Year Planning document (as two term plans)
- Weekly lesson Preparation Sheets
- A lesson Planning File
- Appropriate textbooks with corresponding teacher support material.
- Team mark Sheet (Term 1 and Term 2)
- Timetable
B. Curriculum, Syllabus and Lesson planning Flowchart
C. Monitoring and Maintaining Standards
With the purpose of monitoring curriculum standards and consistency across grades the following will take place:
- Standardized quizzes will be written, by each grade, once per Term one examination is written each term.
- One examination is written each Term.
- Year Plans are Submitted to the Vice Principal each Term, Prior to the beginning of the term.
- When doing preparation, teachers mark off the date of work completed on the year plan.
- Weekly Preparation sheets are submitted to the principal every Thursday by 2.30pm
- Teachers mark students work on a regular basis.
- Principal will randomly call for sets students copy books and workbooks to be submitted for perusal and comment.
- Completed quiz and Examination script are stamped by the Vice Principal
- Records of marks are kept, and periodically analyzed the teachers and the administration.
- International standardization tests may be written.
PART 2: WHOLE SCHOOL ASSESSMENT POLICY
1.Introduction
It is important that our whole school Assessment policy be consistent with the aims of our school. To that end our policy should help us ensure that we, within our excellent learning environment, should use assessment to ensure student achievement and success. Concomitantly we must, while assessing value the best efforts of our students.
It is of overriding importance that assessment at International Academic School (IAS) should motivate, encourage and enable our students achieve to the best of their ability, whilst simultaneously providing an indication of outcomes achieved by the student. It is also important that parents have Knowledge and evidence of student assessment.
2. Why are we assessing?
Assessment of a variety of kinds takes Place in every lesson, everyday. For IAS our assessment objectives are as follows:
- To Provide feedback to students
- To increase student motivation
- To identify learning strengths and weaknesses
- To show progress(added value)
- To assist evaluation of teaching methods and materials
- To provide information to the school and parents
- To enable students to make a value judgment of their own work
- To assist moderation of standards across classes
- To provide data on standardized test achievement
3. Purpose of IAS School Assessment Policy
- All Subjects, particularly in High School, have an assessment scheme tailored to the requirements of their subjects. The purpose of IAS’ Whole School Assessment Policy is to provide a common framework, which supports:
- Professional flexibility
- Subject flexibility
- Statutory obligation to the Ministry of Education and youth
- Feedback to students and parents on student performance in school that is booth consistent and coherent.
- To this end we adhere to a Term Mark Schedule to provide the following outcomes for all subjects (c.f Term Mark Schedule).
Translating Policy into Action
In translating our policy into effective action, we need to be in agreement on how we give feedback to students and how we report to parents.
Effective feedback to students must be managed:
I. .In the context of an ongoing dialogue between student and teacher in a positive learning environment.
II. In sensitive language appropriate to the student.
III. In a way that allows comments on strength and weakness to be sensitive to motivate performance.
Effective marking across the school must:
I. Be integral to the teaching and learning process
II. Be consistent, realistic and valid
III. Reflect good pedagogic practice (Best Practices)
IV. Be understood by student, parents and teachers.
V. Be manageable by teachers
VI. Be manageable by teachers
Effective reporting to parents needs to:
I. Provide clear communication about the achievement and effort of student.
II. Provide consistency across the school to give parents confidence that they have an objective picture of how their child performing.
III. Be concise, appropriate and legible language, avoiding jargon
IV. Provide a diagnosis of the student’ strengths and weakness, and give clear strategies for improvement.
V. Be manageable by teachers.
To this end IAS has a clear Reporting To Parents Policy (c.f Reporting To Parents Policy).
