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The joy of marking

Oct 27, 2011 | Category: assessment

I'm a big fan of marking students' work. I love it so much I let a big pile of it build up to do over the holidays. As an English teacher I'm faced with a lot of marking and most of it needs to be rea...

#Ofsted #AfL #Ian Gilbert #literacy #marking #Triple impact marking

What can engineers teach us about assessment?

Sep 14, 2011 | Category: assessment

If, like me, you thought the answer to the above question was almost certainly nothing, take a look at this:[caption id="attachment_367" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Slide from Dylan Wiliam'...

#AfL #formative assessment #Dylan Wiliam #engineering

Should we stop doing good things?

Sep 12, 2011 | Category: training

Surely doing good things is something we should do more of? Especially at school. I have seldom met a teacher who is not interested in doing the best for their students and therefore pretty keen to do...

#AfL #Dylan Wiliam #brain gym #learning styles #Pareto #Weight Watchers

What's the point of assessment?

Aug 22, 2011 | Category: assessment

Came across an interesting challenge by @purposeducation - #500words campaign, This week the topic is #purposedassess, so here goes... Everyone knows that there's two different types of assessment, ri...

#learning #AfL #formative assessment #Dylan Wiliam #Sir Ken Robinson #summative assessment

What's the point of lesson observations?

Jul 17, 2011 | Category: Featured

I feel I need to start by saying that I am not questioning the need for lesson observations. They're a crucial part of developing our professional practice and ensure T&L is quality assured. No, what...

#learning #AfL #coaching #lesson observations

Formative assessment and the mark scheme

Jul 23, 2011 | Category: assessment

I’ve been consciously and actively using exam board mark schemes as an essential component of formative assessment with my classes for some time now and thought it was time to share what I was up to m...

#learning #English #AfL #formative assessment #mark schemes