on October 4, 2015
GOV.UK – The group will consider effective practice on marking in schools which raises standards for pupils without creating unnecessary workload.
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on September 20, 2015
TES News – A major research project is to look at how teachers can use feedback to improve pupils’ understanding of maths.
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on September 17, 2015 | updated October 4, 2015
GOV.UK – This report provides advice to schools about how to develop new approaches to pupil assessment that are based on needs of the pupils, follow the school’s curriculum and support effective teaching. GOV.UK – Commission on Assessment Without Levels: government response. TES News – Life after levels report calls for greater understanding between Ofsted and teachers. TES News – Schools are recreating […]
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on September 10, 2015
TES – In the 10th part of our ongoing online conversation, Scottish educationalist David Cameron (left) sets out his own version of what constitutes ‘British values’ in response to former schools commissioner for London Sir Tim Brighouse.
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on April 23, 2015
Welsh Government – Professor Donaldson has identified very real strengths in Wales, including the Foundation Phase and the commitment to the Welsh language and culture on which we can build. His report also identifies the shortcomings of the current curriculum arrangements and has made a series of recommendations to address these and improve how children in […]
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on February 5, 2015
TES Opinion – If “children grow into the intellectual life around them” (Vygotsky, 1978), then what kind of intellectual life are we presenting to the students in our classrooms?
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on January 9, 2015 | updated March 31, 2015
Exploring and Evidencing Mastery Learning – Children as the best advocates of their own learning. South West AAIA Conference 2015 – details and application form AAIA SW Mastery Dance Workshop Where’s the evidence – no video Exploring and Evidencing Mastery learning – Di Pardoe
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on November 2, 2014
The Sutton Trust – This report reviews the research that underpins our knowledge of what makes great teaching. It goes on to question how we can record and develop teachers’ best practice in the classroom and ultimately makes suggestions about the strategies teachers can use to promote better learning. TES – Telling students they have done […]
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on October 4, 2014 | updated October 6, 2014
ELLI, Vital Partnerships – ELLI is a deceptively simple but research-validated self-assessment tool based around the Seven Dimensions of Learning ™. These are: Curiosity Resilience Learning Relationships Changing and Learning Strategic Awareness Meaning Making Creativity YouTube – Introducing ELLI.
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on October 2, 2014
University of Bristol, Graduate School of Education – How the potential of digital technologies can best support improved assessment practices and preferred educational outcomes is becoming an issue of increasing importance. An acknowledgement of the potential that digital technologies offer should recognise the complexity of the task, the many factors affecting successful educational change, and […]
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on September 30, 2014
TES – The widely held idea that you should check what students learn in each class to inform your teaching is fundamentally flawed says David Didau. See Dylan Wiliam’s defence of formative assessment in a previous response to David Didau.
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on August 24, 2014
TES Professional – Most five-year-olds struggle to count beyond 30 or tie their own shoe laces, so the thought of them setting their own learning targets would fill many with horror. And yet, according to Heatherle Chambers, a kindergarten teacher from Portland, US, early-years teachers should be insisting that their young charges do exactly that.
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on October 4, 2013
The Telegraph – The Government should introduce a national appraisal system in which all pupils mark teachers against a range of indicators such as motivation levels, difficulty of work, behaviour management, marking quality and preparation for exams, it was claimed.
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on July 5, 2013
TES article – A teacher who claimed not to understand a poem taught the children’s novelist and poet how to think for himself and encourage others to do the same.
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on June 21, 2013
TES Scotland article – Self-evaluation and a smart approach to the curriculum have led to excellent results at a single-class primary.
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