Ag tacú le raon modhanna agus straitéisí teagaisc le measúnú atá lárnach san teagasc agus foghlaim

Aithnítear san fhís don churaclam an

éagsúlacht a bhaineann le comhthéacsanna

oideachais in Éirinn

agus an réimse eispéireas

a chuirtear ar fáil iontu do pháistí.

Samhlaítear measúnú mar chuid orgánach,

dinimiciúil den teagasc

agus den fhoghlaim,

tá go leor de iomasach

i gcleachtas na múinteoirí

chun freastal ar riachtanais

na bpáistí agus na múinteoirí thar aon rud eile.

Spreagann solúbthacht

an chreata múinteoirí le rannpháirtíocht,

úinéireacht agus

dúshlán a chothú agus iad ceangail á

gcruthú acu le heispéiris

saoil agus le hábhair spéise na bpáistí.

Cuirtear comhpháirtíochtaí

le teaghlaigh agus

le páirtithe leasmhara

eile chun cinn sa

chreat ar mhaithe le

heispéireas ionchuimsitheach agus iomlánaíoch.

For us assessment isn’t something that is in a folder

on a filing cabinet, its part of everyday life for the teacher

because it informs their planning,

it informs the next step of teaching

and it also informs the next step of learning.

And also key to it is the child’s role because the child has to be part of the assessment process,

has to be included from the very very beginning and what we do here is we

involve children in self-assessment, peer assessment, they are involved in the learning goals

and they are involved at the end of a lesson reflecting on what happened

again a very important part of this is the role of feedback,

how does the teacher feedback to the children

as to what they’re doing and how they're progressing

and I suppose once all those steps are in place

you get learning, you get purposeful learning,

and you get engagement which is what we want.

And what we are very excited about with this draft framework

it gives teachers and children the time to actually

get involved in the assessment process like this

and it really reaffirms best practice.