Active Assessment: a creative approach to thinking, learning and assessment in secondary schools
When I used the Active Assessment approach, it gets more pupils thinking more of the time. (Secondary teacher, West Midlands)
The Active Assessment strategies got pupils talking and thinking. It (Active Assessment) helps them to get to grips with some tricky ideas and enjoy it. (Secondary teacher, Edinburgh)
Are you looking for a quick, simple and effective approach to assessment that will make a significant difference to teaching and learning in your classroom? Are you committed to the idea of assessment for learning, but unsure of how to put it into practice? This course is about making it happen in the classroom. It builds on recent research into assessment for learning, using an approach developed through our highly successful Active Assessment project. The course is extremely interactive and engaging, emphasising pupils’ thinking and talking through a broad range of quick, simple but highly effective strategies. This course is not about doing even more. It is about making small changes that have a big impact in the classroom.
Active Assessment resources are available at a discounted price to support this course.
On this course you will:
- Experience using an Active Assessment approach that fits into everyday teaching
- Learn creative and manageable ways to reveal and develop pupils’ ideas
- Find out how to generate and support thinking, talking and discussion in the classroom
- Learn simple ways of engaging learners in their own assessment and helping them take their learning forward
- Understand how to put assessment for learning into practice in a way that is manageable
- Discover small changes that can make a big difference to classroom practice.
Target audience:
Secondary or cross phase teachers, headteachers, teacher educators, trainee teachers, teaching assistants and consultants/advisers.
This course usually lasts a full day and benefits from follow-up session/s where possible. It can be run for a half day in some circumstances. Courses will be tailored to meet the needs of your organisation rather than ‘off the shelf’.
Available for:
MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE, ENGLISH and/or ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
How to book this course:
Contact Jo Williams, Tel 01270 764314, to discuss how this course can transform teaching, learning and assessment in your organisation.
Charges are calculated on a course by course basis, but are typically between £450 and £950 per day, plus expenses, depending on the size of the organisation and number of people attending. Special subsidised rates apply to some of our courses and for trainee teachers.
