Gloss- Check Up

We are going to watch a selection of video’s now:If we heard these answers, what decision’s would

We be making? As you are watching:

•What strategy stage are they?•Record what strategy they are using?

•What other strategies could they have used?•What knowledge do they have?

•What knowledge is being developed?

Decision Making- What Strategy is this Child using?

Decision Making- What strategy is this Child using?

Decision Making- What strategy is this child using?

Decision Making- What Strategy is this child using?

Contentious Issues with Gloss…

• Are there any?Range of achieved Domain stages – leveling working level. 3 –ratio, 4 add/sub, 5 mult/div

• Recording• Global stage?

• Can we help each other to solve them?• Not intended to be ‘one number’ – purpose was to raise teacher

skills, Gloss has changed – Hierarchy of difficulty- still informing your teaching. Which one do we put in? Follow the Gloss assessment – then the data set is consistent- Entering their highest global stage.

• Recording exactly what they are saying – explain explicitly what they are saying- think about the next teacher reading it.

• Gloss H – Whole school using this Gloss

Gloss Basics…

• Use a different Gloss at the start to the end of the year

• Recording their highest Working Strategy Stage (They only have to show you one way)

• JAM can give you the strategy stage too –record that into the Gloss section of MUSAC

• Yes we will be Gloss testing in Term 2 and Term 4.