Assessment

All of these posts are collections of sites and blogs I’ve found useful or interesting to put in one place to share with colleagues. I try to add to it whenever I stumble across new posts.

 

Feedback

feedback-mindset-and-motivation-linked – @s_donarski

Live Feedback – @teachertoolkit

Ten Marking and Feedback Strategies – @teachertoolkit

Improvements may be:

• To complete or improve the original task
• To improve the level achieved to reach your target
• An extension question to achieve better than your target
• To repeat processes or apply it to another situation

(from @teachertoolkit’s yellow box)

 

The learner must know how to use the feedback to improve – it may be accurate but not particularly helpful. (adapted from Embedded formative assessment by William D)

According to David Didau: Reasons to give feedback are:

1. To provide clarity
2. Increasing effort – Pupils must believe “it’s up to me” and “I can do something about it”
3. Increasing aspiration

 

Differention

All of these posts are collections of sites and blogs I’ve found useful or interesting to put in one place to share with colleagues. I try to add to it whenever I stumble across new posts.

Where is the evidence to support differentiation? – Greg Ashman @greg_ashman

10 ‘Teach to the Top’ Differentiation Ideas – @TeacherToolkit

Still Not Convinced About Differentiation – @johnkenny03

 

About Learning

All of these posts are collections of sites and blogs I’ve found useful or interesting to put in one place to share with colleagues. I try to add to it whenever I stumble across new posts.

Dual Coding Because memories.com

Imagining a new Blooms Teach Like A Champion Blog

Plenaries Are they a waste of time – Miss D Cox

9 things every teacher should know – Dylan Wiliam

How to study a textbook – The Learning Scientists @acethattest

Revision Lessons – Miss D Cox

Books and Articles

This is a list of books I’ve read (or dipped in to) recently:

• Daniel T. Willingham – Why Don’t Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom.
• Doug Lemov – Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College.
• Doug Lemov – Practice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better
• Matthew Syed – Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success

• Carol Dweck – Mindset – Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential

• Andy Buck – Leadership Matters: How Leaders at All Levels Create Great Schools

• Daisy Christadou – Making Good Progress: The future of Assessment for Learning

• Katharine Birbalsingh – Battle Hymn of the Tiger Teachers: The Michaela Way

• David Didau – What Every Teacher Needs to Know About Psychology
• Ross Morrison McGill – 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Outstanding Lessons (100 Ideas for Teachers)
• Sherrington, Tom – Teach Now! Science: The Joy of Teaching Science
• David Didau – What if everything you knew about education was wrong?
• Jim Collins – Good to Great
• Ross McGill – Mark, Plan, Teach
• Tom Sherrington – The Learning Rainforest: Great Teaching in Real Classrooms
• Paul Dix – When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic Shifts in School Behaviour
• Paul Dix –  The Essential Guide to Taking Care of Behaviour: Practical Skills for Teachers (The Essential Guides)
• Peter C Brown –  Make It Stick

Tom Sherrington has curated a really useful collection of essential reading here:

Tom’s list

Tom Bennett also has a list:

Tom B’s List

High Expectations (challenge)

All of these posts are collections of sites and blogs I’ve found useful or interesting to put in one place to share with colleagues. I try to add to it whenever I stumble across new posts.

Blogs about raised expectations

Teach to the top – @teacherhead

No teacher talk. No challenging texts. No knowledge. It’s as if we’ve designed our schools to keep the poor in poverty… @ebiThomasJ

https://www.theconfidentteacher.com/2015/04/pygmalion-effect-classroom/ – Alex Quigley

https://3starlearningexperiences.wordpress.com/2016/06/21/370/ – Kirschner and Neelanz

https://johntomsett.com/2017/02/26/this-much-i-know-abouthow-best-to-support-our-most-disadvantaged-students/ – John Tomsett

 

 

Peer Assessment

All of these posts are collections of sites and blogs I’ve found useful or interesting to put in one place to share with colleagues. I try to add to it whenever I stumble across new posts.

Here is a start of a list of blogs and sites about peer assessment
Mrs Humanities

Teacher Toolkit

I especially like the ideas of:
– Varying the work they assess. Having different student work already laid out for them so they aren’t always swapping with a neighbour.
– Providing feedback. Spending time discussing the quality of the feedback they have been given.

– Undertaking the peer assessment process part way through so students have the opportunity to improve work as they go along