The Importance of Open Response Tasks

open response tasks are things when you ask the students to report some learning or do something in a form of their choosing without too much structure to it. One of my all-time favourite one was two boys in year seven who were eleven when I taught RE and they made this incredible website called embracing Islam which is just epic. Some children would do a kind of little pamphlet guide to you know that the key aspects of Christianity or Islam but if you always prescribe everything you kind of put a limit on it because you think well I can't make everyone do this incredibly expansive thing. It's sort of a bedrock kind of for you because you let it happen and then celebrate what you get, says Ms