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Teacher checklists
Here is a mock-up of a teacher assessment checklist filled in by a teacher.

Context

• Teacher in a primary school classroom, teaching Māori as a second language.
• The learners in this scenario are in year two, and are about six years of age.
• They are still acquiring basic literacy and numeracy skills. This means that some of the AOs are likely to takelonger to achieve, because the learners will still be developing the concepts in their first language.
• If this checklist was being used by a teacher in a secondary school, in the first year of a Māori language programme, basic numeracy and literacy will be well established, and it could be expected that the learners will have the number concepts for example, and just be learning how tounderstand and produce these in Māori.

Degrees of achievement

There are three degrees of achievement signalled in the checklists, together with a space for the teacher to write more detail about each learner:

3. indicates the item is yet to be achieved by the learner

2. indicates that the item has been achieved, but not always consistently or to a high standard, by the learner

1.indicates the item has been achieved consistently and to a high standard by the learner.


Comments column

The comments in this column give more detail about the achievement. This learner, ‘Mere Paraone’, is a six year old, still learning basic numeracy and literacy. She only knows numbers up to 20 with confidence, and is still learning to read in her first language.




Other options forsetting out a checklist

|LEVEL 1 |Learner’s name: |1 2 3 |Comments |
|Achievement Objective |Mere Paraone | | |
| |Date: 14 May 2010 | ||
|1.1 greet, farewell, and thank people and |Can greet one person |1 |Does not yet have command of the dual |
|respond to greetings and thanks | | |pronouns. |
| || |Not as confident when responding as when |
| | | |initiating greetings. |
| | | |Has more difficulty with thanking. |
| |Can greettwo people |3 | |
| |Can greet three or more people |2 | |
| |Can respond to greetings from one |1 | |
||person | | |
| |Can respond to greetings from two |3 | |
| |people | | |
||Can respond to greetings from three |2 | |
| |or more people | | |
| |Can thank one person |2 | |
|...