Highland Council Reflection Framework Unit B1

The Highland Council
Education, Culture and Sport Service
Learning and Teaching CPD Reflection Framework

Section B: Embedding Formative Assessment
Unit 1: So what are the pupils doing?
This unit examines how teachers can develop their own understanding and use of formative assessment to help pupils become more actively involved in their own learning.

Contents
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This unit contains some additional resources designed to help participants explore where they are in their experience of formative assessment. There is a short PowerPoint presentation called Establishing Prior Learning (which can be downloaded here) and an introduction and initial activity (which can be downloaded here).

Discussion paper
Embedding Formative Assessment: so what are the pupils doing?

Overview
PowerPoint presentation
Presentation notes
Presentation handout

Activity 1: Exploring the principles
Activity 2: Beliefs and classroom practice
Activity 3: Exploring formative assessment
Activity 4: Reflecting on practice

Supplementary reading

AifL: exploring programme success
Learning from Mistakes
[Beliefs about intelligence and ability (Session 2)]
How do they walk on hot sand?
[Using questions to help pupils learn]

How am I doing?
Assessment and feedback to learners
Self-assessment

You can download all the files in this unit in a single compressed file HERE

Permission is granted to individual schools for the free use of these materials on condition that copyright is acknowledged. No other use is granted without the prior agreement of the copyright holders. © The Highland Council / Eric Young

Overview

Unit A1

Unit A2

Unit B1

Unit B2

Unit C1

Unit C2