The municipalities of \u00c1rborg, Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and Reykjanesb\u00e6r in
\nin collaboration with the National Centre for Education have worked on the translation and localisation into Swedish
\nan assessment tool for new students of foreign origin which has been used with good success in Sweden. It is suggested
\nincluding an assessment of prior knowledge and experience, as well as literacy and numeracy. The main aim of the baseline assessment is to support schools in positioning pupils in terms of their knowledge and experience, thereby making it easier for teachers and school leaders to
\nOrganise each student's learning according to their strengths and needs.<\/p>\n
Last week, a course was held in Gar\u00f0ab\u00e6r for four primary schools that have taken on the task of beginning to implement the assessment tool. This assessment tool was designed by three universities in Sweden and Skolverket following an extensive study. The schools taking the lead are H\u00e1aleitissk\u00f3li in Reykjanesb\u00e6r, L\u00e6kjarsk\u00f3li in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, Vallask\u00f3li in Selfoss and Fellask\u00f3li in Brei\u00f0holti. Others also took part in the course, including advisers from the Centre for Language and Literacy in Reykjav\u00edk and representatives from the Ministry of Education and Culture. Thordis H. Olafsdottir and Annelie Hultgren, who have extensive experience teaching multilingual children at Roseng\u00e5rdskolan in Malm\u00f6, presented and taught on the diagnostic tool and spoke about teaching in a multilingual classroom. The participants were very positive about the course and will subsequently introduce the assessment tool in their own schools. Once it has been trialled and the pilot phase is complete, further courses will be held and all schools in the country will be given the opportunity to use the new assessment tool, which has been sorely lacking in the country. <\/p>\n
A steering group has been active for two years, but it is composed of
\nAneta Figlarska, teaching advisor in \u00c1rborg, Fanney D\u00f3r\u00f3the Halld\u00f3rsd\u00f3ttir, director of the education and leisure services department of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur municipality, Halld\u00f3ra Fr\u00ed\u00f0a
\nThorvaldsd\u00f3ttir, teaching advisor at the Education Department of Reykjanesb\u00e6r; Helgi Arnarson, Director of the Education Department of Reykjanesb\u00e6r; Hrund Har\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir, teaching advisor in
\n\u00c1rborg, Kolfinna Nj\u00e1lsd\u00f3ttir, Head of School Services for Reykjanesb\u00e6r, Kristr\u00fan
\nSigurj\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir, teaching adviser in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur; \u00de\u00f3rd\u00eds Helga \u00d3lafsd\u00f3ttir, special education officer for primary schools in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur; and \u00deorsteinn Hjartarson,
\nDirector of Education at \u00c1rborg Municipality. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sveitarf\u00e9l\u00f6gin \u00c1rborg, Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur og Reykjanesb\u00e6r \u00ed samstarfi vi\u00f0 Menntam\u00e1lastofnun hafa unni\u00f0 a\u00f0 \u00fe\u00fd\u00f0ingu og sta\u00f0f\u00e6ringu \u00e1 s\u00e6nsku st\u00f6\u00f0umatst\u00e6ki fyrir n\u00fdja nemendur af erlendum uppruna sem hefur veri\u00f0 nota\u00f0 me\u00f0 g\u00f3\u00f0um \u00e1rangri \u00ed Sv\u00ed\u00fej\u00f3\u00f0. Lagt er m.a. mat \u00e1 fyrri \u00feekkingu og reynslu sem og l\u00e6si og talnaskilning. Meginmarkmi\u00f0 st\u00f6\u00f0umats er a\u00f0 sty\u00f0ja sk\u00f3lana \u00ed a\u00f0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13748"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}