Assessment for LearningA Collaborative Training Day

8.00 Introduction – DAR/IDW

8:10 Key Note Speaker – Mark Lovatt

8:45 Partnership video of good practice

9:00 AfL across the partnership

9:15 Improving dialogue between learner and teacher

10:00 Workshop 1

11:00 Brunch – Upper School Hall

11:30 Workshop 2

12:25 In Departmental/Key Stage 2 Groups

1:10 Plenary - Victoria Ashfield – Upper School Hall1:30 Close

Outline of the day

KEVI and middle school collaborative partnership

What assessment looks like across the partnershipMaureen Kristen – RothburyMargaret Scott – ChantrySteven Johnson – NewminsterAnne Calder and Chris Easton – KEVIViv Taylorson – Learning Consultant

AfL at Thomlinson Middle School

Traffic Lighting

2 Stars and a Wish

Target Steps

Learning Roads

Self & Peer Assessment

Embedded – Assessment Policy

- Medium Term Plans

Margaret Scott - Chantry

Working together as a partnership Sharing good practice and expertise Using a common language for teaching and

learning Using audits and questionnaires effectively to

give the same training to all teachers Promoting a good work/life balance by joint

meetings and training AfL in Chantry - ‘It’s what we do’

Valuing all Including all Enabling all

Margaret Scott - Chantry Learning is a shared process by pupils and

teachers Demystifies the learning process for the pupils Creates classrooms where involvement in

learning takes place Increases pupil interaction and develops

speaking and listening to benefit learning in all subjects

Encourages risk taking by pupils and teachers Time is created and used to give feedback Ensures opportunities for praise to raise self-

esteem

Margaret Scott - Chantry Pupils can explain what they need to do to

demonstrate success Develops independent learning Looks forward to the next steps Chantry’s next steps – ‘The interesting bit’ Creativity Develop learning roads Work on differentiated learning outcomes and

success criteria Share learning targets with pupils and parents

as part of working closely with parents

Steven Johnson - Newminster

Assessment for Learning at Newminster Middle

“ …..fostering academic and personal development in a caring and challenging environment so that each individual can

achieve his or her potential “

OFSTED 2006

“..... need to monitor subject areas to ensure consistent quality of

marking.”

What are we doing ?

Review of marking policy Using QRoad to learning in reviewing classroom

observation schedule for new performance management arrangements – September 2007

Involving parents in AfL through QRoad to learning guidelines

Encouraging children to transfer skills across the curriculum and across phases

Departments sharing good practice within Newminster Sharing good practice in KEVI partnership and

embracing changes to the Secondary Strategy

What are we doing ?

Audit AfL and further improve consistency of strategies across the curriculum

Peer and self assessment Oral and written feedback Clear and shared learning objectives Children setting their own curricular targets Learning roads / curriculum ladders Reflection of learning outcomes / plenary

sessions Recording and reporting

Where next ?

Working together as a collaborative partnership to develop an AfL / independent learning agenda fit for the 21st century.

Share good practice and expertise and build on strengths of the team

Develop a community where learning is a shared process ie parents, pupils

Work with our first schools to make changes to the Primary Strategy to ensure creativity in the curriculum we deliver.

Students know where they are,

where they want to be and how to get

there **

Assessment for Learning at KEVI

Regular grade updates to inform

parents of progress

Grades/scores are used as a

motivational tool **

More use of exemplar material *

Use of mark schemes

**

Peer assessments

A4L dedicated displays

Anne Calder and Chris Easton - KEVI

BACK

Viv Taylorson – Learning consultant

Excellent Dialogue

Sharing great practice

- a practical activity.

Laura McGuinness, Geoff Fox and Steve Wilkes

What have they got in common?

Excellent

Teaching

and Learning.

Tight Curls!!!

Task

Assess

Review

Target Set / Modify approach

Effective and interactive student learning involves regular feedback cycles. Ideally this happens in many subjects, with one target for improvement in each subject

Excellent Dialogue – Central to AfL

Assessment

Objectives

Reflection

Questioning

Dialogue

Sets context – before

& after snapshot (long and short term)

Self, P

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Beyond superficiality

– Fat questions

Allows

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Emphasises Student-centred

Parents Teacher

Peers

Student

Think about the analogy with a tripod – Peers, Parents and Teacher are the legs supporting the Student – the closer they are together, the higher the student achieves!

Poor dialogue

Student always says “I’ll try harder” – higher input

Little thought/discussion about the process (Metacognition and enquiry/problem solving techniques)

Discussion forgotten about & lost forever…