Session Objectives WALT

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Session Objectives WALT

• understand how the key features of Assessment For
  Learning (AFL) can be embedded into everyday
  teaching and learning
• understand how assessment for learning can help
  make learning fun and engaging

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What do students do most in lessons? 2002 Mori
Survey Results

• Which three of the following do you do most in
  class?
• Copy from board, PowerPoint, book etc. 63
• Listen to teacher talking for a long time
  37
• Have class discussion
  31
• Spend time thinking quietly on my own 24
• Work in small groups to solve a problem 22
• Take notes while my teacher talks
  20
• Talk about my work with a teacher
  16
• Learn things that relate to the real world
  12
• Work on a computer
  10

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Shares specific learning objectives and outcomes
with pupils

• Using Photo Story 3 for windows to set learning
  objectives and outcomes
• Photo Story 3 is a free down load (search via
  Google)
• WALT and WILF 1 Writing a recount
• 2 PEE Rule

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Helps pupils know and recognise the standards
they are aiming for modelling - show pupils
what an excellent answer looks like

• AfL display
• Webcams Plenary 1 Plenary 2
• Using Microsoft Moviemaker as a review/modelling
  tool Cyclone challenge

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Involves pupils in peer and self assessment
Involves diagnostic marking teacher, self, peer

• Peer assessment tools PE
• Assessment Guidance Progression in describing
  locations
• Levelled placemats
• Learner response to using AFL placemats

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Focuses on questioning skills wait time,
traffic lights

• Effective plenaries
• Questioning tips
• Higher order questioning
• Questioning games Blockbusters Connect 4
  Noughts and crosses Play your cards right, Bulls
  Eye
• Learners in action Plenary games

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Lesson Examples

• KS3 Kobe Earthquake Mystery
• KS3 Quarries assessment
• KS4 Plant Adaptation Lesson
• Cyclones
• Packing it all in!! Routines and rituals
• Contact details jsherwood_at_pickeringhigh.hull.sc
  h.uk

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Session outcomes WILF.

• Practical ideas/tools for embedding AFL into
  lessons
• Practical ideas/tools for making AFL fun and
  engaging

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AFL Characteristics

• Shares specific learning objectives and outcomes
  with pupils
• Helps pupils know and recognise the standards
  they are aiming for modelling - show pupils
  what an excellent answer looks like
• Involves pupils in peer and self assessment
• Involves diagnostic marking teacher, self, peer
• Focuses on questioning skills wait time,
  traffic lights
• Involves teacher and pupil reviewing and
  reflecting on assessment data
• Uses a variety of learning styles