Could Do Better: Reports With A Personal Touch
johndabell Teachers love teaching but hate the paperwork and so writing reports isn’t something they look forward to. For many teachers report writing is a monumental chore that eats away at…
Assessment
Formative Feedback And The Invisible Cloak
When it comes to providing live feedback, how do you get the most out of students? There is an excellent article by Granberg, Palm and Palmberg (2021) which looks at…
Active Assessment Using ‘Ques-cussions’
If you are looking to challenge thinking and promote novel learning conversations then ‘Ques-cussion’ encourages students to discuss a topic using only questions – no answers or statements allowed! Ques-cussion…
Three Facts and a Fib
Three Facts and a Fib is a true-false statement assessment strategy that can be used to show what students know, don’t know and partly know about a topic or concept.…
Active Maths
When most people are asked to think of an ‘active’ subject in school then P.E. is likely to spring to mind as the frontrunner with maths taking a backseat in…
The Hole In Exams
Are we missing a trick when it comes to setting exams?
Feedback That Actually Feeds Back
Giving feedback is one of the easiest and hardest things teachers have to do.
Representativeness Restraint And Teacher Assessment
Do you see what you want to see?
Diagnosis Momentum
If there is one thing that is hard to shake off, it’s a label. Labels are lethal for a child’s development. They act as badges, tags and markers and for…
Question Hat
Have you ever used the question hat strategy?