foolfillment: the blog

My third year Graphics class are sitting a test tomorrow morning on Sectional drawings. It’s a bit of a milestone for me - this is the first topic I have taught to a class from start to finish with no, or little, input from the regular teacher. The drawing they’ll be doing tomorrow is really quite complicated but I think I’ve prepared them well for it.

Graphics is a good subject for assessment most of the time - doing a drawing is something that is hard to make entirely quantitatively (is that actually a word or have I just made it up?) assessable, and it certainly isn’t a regurgitation of facts. In this case it is a very good drawing for prompting thought and building up in a mind how the rules fit together. It will also be a good drawing to see how well the pupils have progressed as it contains a number of tricky things that they should be able to do now.

I’m quite excited to see how they get on.

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