Assessment CPD Students 

#1minCPD: Raising Aspirations

17th January 201917th January 2019 Hanna Beech 375 Views 0 Comments action plan, aim high, ambition, Aspiration, Aspirations, Assessment, engagement, potential, Progress, Students

Reading Time: 1 minute Want to encourage your pupils to aim high?

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Assessment Behaviour Teaching and Learning 

Top 10 ‘Afternoon’ Teaching Strategies

10th January 20199th January 2019 Tom Davidson 1062 Views 0 Comments Apprentice, Behaviour, Blockbuster, classroom strategies, Creativity, decision making, Don Draper, fact-checking, fake news, Jo Jonah Jameson, Knowledge organisers, LKMco, News roleplay, oracy, peer teaching, Pomodoro technique, Problem Solving, Revision, scavenger hunt, Speakers Corner, Teaching Ideas

Reading Time: 4 minutes What ‘end of the week’ teaching ideas do you have up your sleeve?

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Assessment Curriculum Teaching and Learning 

Colour-Coded Differentiation

9th January 20199th January 2019 John Dabell 2756 Views 0 Comments ability grouping, achievement, Colour Blind Awareness, colour coding, Data, Differentiation, Disadvantage, diversity, division, Isabella Wallace, Jayne Bartlett, labels, Leah Kirkman, obstacles, Pimp My Lesson, racism, Seating Plans, segregation, spreadsheets, Sue Cowley, worksheets

Reading Time: 3 minutes Why should we ditch colour-coded worksheets?

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Assessment Students Teaching and Learning 

5 Tips For Live Displays

8th January 20196th January 2019 Helen Sharpe 723 Views 0 Comments Alex Quigley, Andy Tharby, classroom displays, Clever Classrooms, content, David Didau, displays, distraction, Doug Lemov, HEAD project, Literacy, live modelling, Mary Shelley, Memory, Peps Mccrae, Presentation

Reading Time: 3 minutes How can we improve our displays?

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Assessment Leadership Policies 

Solutions Looking For Problems

18th December 201818th December 2018 Phil Naylor 746 Views 0 Comments aal$ed.org, Assessment, attainment, audit, CPD, Data, diagnosis, Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), engagement, evidence, gap analysis, Intervention, Pupil Premium

Reading Time: 4 minutes What exactly seems to be the problem?

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Assessment Curriculum Teaching and Learning 

5 Tips For Making Project-Based Learning Work

9th December 201810th December 2018 Laura George 665 Views 0 Comments Assessment, Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), Finland, Knowledge, phenomenon-based learning, Project Based Learning, Resources, Skills, SOLE, Star Wars, Star Wars In The Classroom, Sugata Mitra

Reading Time: 3 minutes How can pupils and teachers excel in project-based learning?

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Assessment CPD Teaching and Learning 

#1MinCPD: 10 Quick Questioning Tips

5th December 20184th December 2018 Hanna Beech 920 Views 0 Comments Assessment for Learning, assessment of learning, closed, critical questions, higher order questions, lower order questions, Open, Questioning, Questions, Recall, thinking

Reading Time: 1 minute How can you make the most of questioning in class?

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Assessment Resources Teaching and Learning 

Don’t Be Afraid Of Live Modelling

20th November 201819th November 2018 David Lowbridge-Ellis 901 Views 1 Comment Andy Tharby, Assessment, Corrections, Direct Instruction, display, exam responses, live modelling, Mistakes, Modelling, Rosenshine, Shaun Allison, success criteria, technology, Visualiser, whiteboard, Writing

Reading Time: 4 minutes How can you confidently implement live modelling in your classroom?

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Assessment Middle Leadership Podcasts 

Podcast 31: Is A Results-Based Education System A Good Idea?

4th November 201812th November 2018 Joshua McGovern 807 Views 0 Comments #TTkit100Women, #TTkitPodcast, Alice Ferguson, Assessment, boys, challenge, Exams, experiment, girls, Head of Science, leadership, Middle Leadership, motivation, piggot school, Podcast, science, Teaching and Learning, women, WomenEd

Reading Time: 1 minute Is a results-based education system a good idea?

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Assessment Podcasts Workload 

Podcast 30: How Common is Over-Marking?

20th October 201821st October 2018 Joshua McGovern 2434 Views 0 Comments #TTkit100Women, #TTkitPodcast, English, live marking, Marking, Ofsted, over-marking, performing arts, Podcast, secondary, Workload, yellow box marking

Reading Time: 2 minutes How common is ‘over-marking’ for teachers?

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Assessment Curriculum Workload 

How Can We Improve Assessment Practice?

17th October 201817th October 2018 Iesha Small 1068 Views 0 Comments Assessment, LKMco, making waves, Pearson, Research, teacher feedback, Think Tank

Reading Time: 2 minutes How can assessment be improved to reduce teacher workload?

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Assessment Curriculum Policies 

How To Revolutionise Your Marking Workload

16th October 201818th October 2018 Lynn How 2051 Views 3 Comments accountability, Assessment, BBC, Dame Alison Peacock, Education Endowment Foundation, Feedback, Huntington Research School, Marking, Ofsted, ownership, Research, telegraph, Third Space Learning, Wellbeing, Workload

Reading Time: 4 minutes With this approach, could we scrap marking completely?

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Assessment Teaching and Learning Workload 

4 Steps To Ditching Differentiation

15th October 201815th October 2018 David Lowbridge-Ellis 6299 Views 11 Comments challenge, Differentiation, myth, Ofsted, planning, scaffolding, Sean Harford, stretch, Wellbeing, Workload

Reading Time: 4 minutes How can we change the differentiation narrative?

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Assessment Research Workload 

Does Verbal Feedback Improve Outcomes?

1st October 20186th October 2018 Holly Gardner 1582 Views 0 Comments Access and Widening Participation Office, Action Research, CPD, Disadvantaged, key stage 3, London Centre for Leadership in Learning, Mark Quinn, Marking, Register now, Research and Development, research project, UCL, UCL Institute of Education, Verbal Feedback, Verbal Feedback Project, Year 7, Year 8

Reading Time: 2 minutes Does verbal feedback have any impact on student outcomes?

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Assessment Students Workload 

Teaching Ideas To Bin: Data Drops

29th September 201829th September 2018 John Dabell 1012 Views 2 Comments Assessment, Data, data drop, Fads, Formative Assessment, Gimmicks, Myths, Progress, Summative Assessment, target setting, Tom Sherrington, Workload

Reading Time: 1 minute Is collecting data the biggest waste of teacher time?

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Assessment Teaching and Learning Workload 

13 Marking Workload Tips For Teachers

24th September 201829th December 2018 Lynn How 4004 Views 8 Comments Behaviour, class marking sheet, Emails, even better if, live marking, Marking, Peer assessment, self marking, self-assessment, teacher workload, Teaching assistant, what went well, Workload

Reading Time: 5 minutes How can you get your marking workload under control this term?

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Assessment Students Teaching and Learning 

Teaching Ideas To Bin: Work Scrutinies

22nd September 201822nd September 2018 John Dabell 2098 Views 8 Comments book-look, educational fads, Fads, Marking, Multi Academy Trust, Myths, Progress, Summative Assessment, work scrutinies

Reading Time: 1 minute Are book-looks dangerous and unreliable?

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