ASSIGNMENT 3`

• DESIGNED BY:M.M. MOTSHEPE

• DATE:06 MAY 2009.
 AUTHENTIC LEARNING AND
ASSESSMENT:IS THE TYPE OF
LEARNING, WHERE MATERIALS
AND ACTIVITIES ARE FRAMED
AROUND REAL LIFE CONTEXT IN
WHICH THEY WOULD BE USED.
THE UNDERLYING ASSUMPTION THIS
OF APPROACH IS THAT MATERIAL IS
MEANINGFUL TO STUDENTS AND
THEREFORE ,MORE MOTIVATED AND
DEEPLY PROCESSED.RELATED
TERMS/CONCEPTS INCLUDE
CONTEXTUALIZED LEARNING,THEME
BASED CURRICULUM.
 LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT.

• 1.Provide coaching and scaffolding by the

teacher at critical times.
• 2.Promote reflection to enable abstraction to
be formed.
• 3.Support collaborative construction of
knowledge.
• 4.Provide multiple roles and perspective.
PICTURES RELATED TO AUTHENTIC
LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT.
 AUTHENTIC
LEARNING.MAPWORK-reality.
CALCULATIONS-MEASUREMENTS.
1.DISTANCE-WE WOULD KNOW THE POSITION OF THINGS FROM ONE ANOTHER.
2.GRADIENT-PUPILS ARE ENCOURAGED TO WORK WITH NUMBERS.
3.MAGNETIC DECLINATION-TEACHES PUPILS HOW TO COUNT AND TO BECOME MATHS
LITERATE.
AREA-LEARNERS WOULD KNOW THE SPACE
OCCUPIED BY A CONSTRUCTION.
AUTHENTIC LEARNING ASSESSMENT.-STUDENTS PERFORM REAL WORLD TASKS.
1.LEARNERS MUST SHOW HOW ROADS ARE CONSTRUCTED.- SHOW CORRECT
MEASUREMENTS AND CORRECT CALCULATIONS.
2.MAKE DIAGRAMS TO SHOW HOW BUILDINGS ARE LAID.-CORRECT MEASUREMENTS MUST
BE DONE.
AUTHENTIC CHECK LIST.

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AUTHENTIC LEARNING CHECK
LIST.
1 2 3 4
1.Diagrams are neat and well measured. *
2.Measurements are correct but diagrams are *
skew.
3.Diagrams are correct but measurements are *
incorrect.
4.Both diagrams and measurements are incorrect. *