American International School of Johannesburg Symposium

Session 1: Core Concepts

Participants will explore the 6 core concepts of culturally responsive formative assessment and compare their current practice to determine next steps.

Session 2: Cultivate Learning Partnerships with Core Habits of Learning

Participants will learn how to strengthen learning partnerships, a key aspect of formative assessment, through the AISJ portrait of a learner. Educators will learn concrete formative assessment practices to cultivate dispositional learning through a cultural lens.

Session 3: Build a Culture of Critical Friends through Asset-Based Peer Assessment

Participants will learn practical strategies to refine current peer assessment practices through an asset-based cultural lens.

9:15 – 11:15 am SAST

Participants will learn and experience the Impact Team Collaborative Inquiry  Process (PLC) anchored in human centered design to ensure quality implementation of schoolwide and classroom goals that lead to advancing learner agency. Educators will explore empathetic methods as an approach to better understand and solve puzzles of practice to make progress on school goals.

2:15 – 4:15 pm SAST

Educators will learn the key drivers of student-led instructional rounds to refine feedback loops for school improvement. Educators will assess their current practice to determine their next steps.

9:15 – 11:00 am SAST

Participants will learn and experience the Impact Team Collaborative Inquiry  Process (PLC) anchored in human centered design to ensure quality implementation of schoolwide and classroom goals that lead to advancing learner agency. Educators will explore empathetic methods as an approach to better understand and solve puzzles of practice to make progress on school goals.

2:00 – 3:45 pm SAST

Educators will learn the key drivers of student-led instructional rounds to refine feedback loops for school improvement. Educators will assess their current practice to determine their next steps.