Shifting the balance between teaching and learning: integrating assessment into the dynamic classroom

The learner’s perception

Fish Is Fish (1970) by Leo Lionni, Knopf Books

Active involvement of learners

• To integrate new learning with prior knowledge and past experience
• To make ‘meaning’ for ourselves
• To allow for misconceptions to be identified and worked through

Can you know what students are really learning if you are doing all the talking?

Learning as a social process

Social constructivists argue that the process of sharing individual perspectives results in learners constructing understanding together that wouldn’t be possible alone.