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Guidelines to classroom initiatives
The following questions and resources guide you through a process for implementing formative assessment strategies in your classroom.
Gathering evidence
What evidence do I have that a change of practice is needed?
- Student achievement data
- Student engagement or behaviour
- Feedback and self reflection
- Research
- Online Workshop – Quality teaching and the implications for teaching and learning: Best Evidence Synthesis
- Setting up a constructionist classroom – See Shirley Clarke, Enriching Feedback for the Primary classroom, Chapter 1 – Creating a learning culture in which effective feedback can exist.
What is it that I want to change, what result do I hope for? What’s not working as well as I want?
Identifying a course of action
How do I choose what to work on first?
- identify the range of things you could be working on:
- learning intentions, success criteria
- quality questioning
- feedback, feed forward
- self and peer assessment
What are the strategies I can use under these areas?
- Look at the Classroom strategies from the assessment tool kit
- choose one of the four areas
- choose one or more strategies to trial in your classroom
- Look at the associated assessment readings and workshops links
- Which of these areas and strategies will have the greatest impact on student learning?
- Why not ask the students what they think, let them know you are trying something new
What goals do I want to set?
Reflection
How will I know that these strategies have been effective?
How can I build this into my classroom practice? (Next steps)
- Is it in my lesson planning?
- Can I have another teacher observe this aspect of my teaching?
- Can I ask the students what difference this is making to their learning?
What can I do to keep going if things don’t work?
- Talk to my buddy or other teachers
- Video yourself and analyse what you see and hear
- Ask the students what they think and how it could work better
- Keep trying and focussing on the aspect you want to change
- Refer to the other strategies suggested in the classroom strategies from the assessment tool kit and select another related strategy
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