I had the privilege of presenting at the EdTech Team Auckland GAFE Summit held at Aorere College.  The focus of my session was VTaL - Tracking Student Progress.    In 2017, I delivered a session entitled VTaL Visible Teaching and Learning in a Secondary School Context.  This year's session was an opportunity to focus in on one of the VTaL tools, Tool 03 : Class Project Task Lists, and provide examples of how I have used the tracking sheets to inform my practice, and accelerate student achievement.

I always find it greatly satisfying having the opportunity to share my experiences, the trials, tribulations and everything in between, with fellow teaching practitioners, if it is going to enable them to learn from both my success moments as well as my mistakes.



Tracking sheets and monitoring systems are certainly not a new concept.  They've been around as far back as assessment has ever existed.  However, tracking sheets, marking sheets, checklists etc are completely pointless if they are not going to be used to Inform Teacher Practice, and, Accelerate Student Achievement.  It doesn't matter how many bells, whistles, colours, links, gifs or emojis can be dropped into tracking sheets.  If the tracking sheet isn't used to Inform Teacher Practice, and Accelerate Student Achievement, then as a tool, the tracking sheet is pointless.

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