“Irresistible Assessment”: Practical strategies to boost pupil progress and engagement - Teacher CPD
Assessment is at the heart of the latest Ofsted framework and research proves that formative assessment (assessment for learning or AfL) raises attainment. However, experts now suggest that formative assessment is underdeveloped in most schools.
This one-day CPD course for teachers, from the author of the popular book “The Perfect Assessment for Learning”, will refresh your thinking on AfL and provide a host of highly practical but low-preparation activities to boost pupil engagement and progress. Learn how to make assessment irresistible, in classrooms and across the whole school.
There will also be ample time for delegates to work collaboratively in order to explore best practice examples and to design effective learning sequences to take away and try in school. For classroom teachers there will be practical approaches to enhance classroom practice whilst middle and senior leaders will gain from the school wide and systemic focus on what works best.
Course content:
Session 1: Irresistible Assessment
- Laying the foundations: what do we mean by effective assessment?
- Implications of assessing without national curriculum levels
- Principles and philosophies: avoiding the AfL “buffet”
Session 2: The “Big 5” principles under-pinning AfL
- Tantalising ways to activate learning intentions
- Dynamic success criteria: WAGOLL vs WASOLL
- Effective classroom discussions
- Activating learners as owners of their own learning
Session 3: Most effective feedback
- How to work smarter not harder when giving effective feedback
- Dialogic feedback through “secret code” marking
- The power of peer and gallery critique
- Plenary and questions
Presenter Profile
Claire Gadsby, M.A. describes herself as an innovator, educator and motivator. She is a teaching and learning consultant and trainer with more than 20 years of classroom experience and now works with more than 100 schools a year to raise achievement. Claire is one of the country’s leading experts on how to assess without national curriculum levels.
Her specialist expertise also includes: practical strategies for demonstrating pupil progress; Assessment for Learning; active revision; work with gifted and talented pupils and promoting independent learning. Claire has produced materials for both the Secondary National Strategy and Oxford University Press and her latest book, “The Perfect Assessment for Learning” is now available.