Handouts are available below.

Big Idea

What’s the difference between emerging and developing on a proficiency scale? What’s the difference between proficient and extending? If you’re having difficulty figuring this out, here’s how I’ve explained it to my students – using the analogy of parking.

Episode Notes

Here are a few big ideas from the video:

1. On a proficiency scale, emerging learners have an initial understanding of concepts; developing learners have a partial understanding; proficient learners have a complete understanding; and extending learners have a sophisticated understanding.
2. In terms of a parking analogy, An emerging driver is like a student who has just read the manual but has not yet written or passed their test and, thus, can’t get behind the wheel yet. In other words, they know the basic rules of parking – like making sure you park a minimum distance from a stop sign and on both sides of a fire hydrant – but no practical experience beyond that. A developing driver is someone who passed their written exam and is now learning behind the wheel. And, with regard to parking, perhaps they can pull into or back into a parking spot with some adjustments. A proficient driver has got all the skills they need to pass the exam – they can back into a parking spot and parallel park the car at a correct distance away from the curb too. They have a complete understanding of what it means to park a car.
3. An extending driver has a sophisticated understanding of parking and could parallel park under many different contexts – for example,  they would be able to parallel park on both the left side and the right side. And, they could parallel park on a hill with the car facing upwards or downwards – and this would be difficult because the car would roll inadvertently during parking. And, they would be able to parallel park over a speed bump too. And, if they’ve never parallel parked in these contexts before, at least they could figure it out.

Resource

Handout(s): Ep104 Handouts – Proficiency Scales Explained Using a Parking Analogy

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