Assess your pupils confidence throughout the lesson with this quick AfL activity. Can also be used to show their progress.
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Test pupils reading and listening skills and understanding of the lesson context by using true or false answers.
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Get pupils to reflect on their lesson through looking at the positives and how to develop areas identified for improvement.
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Get your pupils to track their learning up the ladder and encourage them to be reflective about their progress.
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Use words and their meanings to assess pupils understanding of the lesson and subject matter. Let the pupils manage the learning.
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In this task pupils are given various written statements. Using these they are then to identify and justify the odd ones out.
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An alternative to using text to check understanding by allowing pupils to analyse pictures related to the lessons objectives.
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Encourage pupils to work in groups through designing their own quizes which they use to compete against each other.
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Take a different approach to AfL by using drawing rather than writing to demonstrate understanding of the lesson content.
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Ask pupils to rotate around the room to visit and read statements related to the lesson and rank their understanding of them.
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Test your pupils knowledge and understanding through getting them to compose an argument to decide which is best.
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Use ‘boxing’ to encourage active assessment of literacy. A simple technique to focus students.
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Develop active assessment skills through supporting students to focus on the spelling of keywords.
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Utilise the power of listening skills to support the assessment of literacy within written work.
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Challenge your students to assess their use of punctuation with a focus on specific types.
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Give students a starting position through identifying the lines of text containing errors.
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Support student identification of errors within their work with simple, clear codes related to literacy.
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This exercise is designed to allow students to use a set of assessment criteria to support their green pen comments.
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The aim of green pen circles is to encourage students to explore their reflective points.
This is a visual way to ask students to reflect upon the piece of work that they have produced.
The questions used within this task are designed to be generic that focuses on the overall quality of the work that has been produced.
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Ask your students to reflect upon their work in relation to what went well and even better if…
This is a simple, visual way for students to reflect upon their work and also involve their peers in the process as well.
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Use the 4-part Q-Time strategy to structure effective questioning sessions to maximise progress.
Use the 4-part Q-Time strategy including bouncing questions to structure effective questioning sessions.
Use the BIG Assessment framework in conjunction with green pen to use reflection to inform improvements.
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Students use the BIG Assessment framework to reflect upon their work using green pen.
As part of the BIG Assessment framework there are times when students will receive detailed feedback from their teachers.
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BIG assessment is as much about providing quality reflection as it is about acting upon the feedback given.
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Encouraging students to reflect upon their work is essential to developing their independence around how to improve.
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Use this resource for when you wish to undertake an activity to instruct students.
This resource is designed to be used when the teacher needs to give a demonstration to the class or groups of students.
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This resource is designed to be used when the students are required to watch a video clip.
This resource is designed to be used when the students are required to undertake a listening activity.
Use this resource for student presentations to the class or groups. The resource includes a set of timers to use so that you can monitor the presentations.
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Teacher explanations form an important part of lessons to impart knowledge directly from the expert.
Use this resource when you want the class to undertake an activity, this could be individual, pairs or groups.
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In-lesson tests and exams are a great opportunity to build and reinforce examination skills and technique.
During a lesson it is usual to have a period of student reflection on their own work so that they can see how they are progressing.
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A useful activity during a lesson is to have is a period of peer reflection so that they can see how each other are progressing.
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Periods of extended writing are ideal for developing students’ literacy skills. These can be tied in with the Connect strategy and the Connect Mat.
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There are times during a lesson when the use of a textbook exercise is a useful way to reinforce the learning taking place.
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There are times during a lesson when the use of a worksheet exercise is a useful way to reinforce the learning taking place.
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Mind mapping is an effective away to download information and to allow students to reflect on the learning they already know.
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Learning Blooms focusses on giving students independent choice over how to interpret their learning.
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Learning Blooms focusses on giving students independent choice over how to interpret their learning.
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Learning Blooms focusses on giving students independent choice over how to interpret their learning.
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Learning Blooms focusses on giving students independent choice over how to interpret their learning.
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Learning Blooms focusses on giving students independent choice over how to interpret their learning.
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Learning Blooms focusses on giving students independent choice over how to interpret their learning.
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Learning Blooms focusses on giving students independent choice over how to interpret their learning.
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Learning Blooms focusses on giving students independent choice over how to interpret their learning.
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Get students to consider their learning and produce a hot list of the 10 keywords to summarise the learning within the lesson.
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Get students to prepare a presentation that they will perform to the class. This should challenge them to demonstrate and apply their learning.
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Get students to prepare a presentation that they will perform to the class. This should challenge them to demonstrate and apply their learning.
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Get students to prepare a presentation that they will perform to the class. This should challenge them to demonstrate and apply their learning.
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Get students to write an argument. They will need to consider the main points from the learning and why these are important.
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Get students to use the information that they have learnt to create a series of blog posts to demonstrate and apply their learning.
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Get students to be creative when demonstrating their learning through the use of cartoons to represent key facts.
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Get students to use pictures and limited text to produce an infographic to demonstrate and apply their learning.
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Get students to use the various features of a simple postcard to demonstrate and apply their learning.
Get students to consider their learning and produce a set of questions based upon the key points from the learning within the lesson.
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Get students to prepare a presentation that challenges them to demonstrate and apply their learning.
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Get students to produce a single sketch that challenges them to demonstrate and apply their learning.
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Get students to create a song. The contents of this should challenge them to demonstrate and apply their learning.
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Get students to write a short, concise speech. This should challenge them to demonstrate what they have learnt.
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Get students to reflect upon their learning using stars and wishes that also rank order the level of importance.
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Get students to design and make a spinner that can be used as part of a game to summarise their learning.
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Get students to consider their learning and produce a summary tree containing the key points that summarise the learning within the lesson.
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Get students to produce a tweet within the character limit. This should challenge them to demonstrate what they have learnt.
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Get students to reflect upon their learning through using traffic lights and extending this through requiring justification.
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Get students to produce a set of twitter posts within the character limit. This should challenge them to demonstrate what they have learnt.
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Get students to plan and act out a YouTube video. This should challenge them to demonstrate and apply their learning.
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As part of the BIG Assessment framework there are times when students will receive detailed feedback from their teachers.
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As part of the BIG Assessment framework there are times when students will receive detailed feedback from their teachers.
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Use the BIG Assessment framework in conjunction with green pen to use reflection to inform improvements.
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Use the BIG Assessment framework in conjunction with green pen to use reflection to inform improvements.
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Use the BIG Assessment framework in conjunction with green pen to use reflection to inform improvements.
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BIG assessment is as much about providing quality reflection as it is about acting upon the feedback given.
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BIG assessment is as much about providing quality reflection as it is about acting upon the feedback given.
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BIG assessment is as much about providing quality reflection as it is about acting upon the feedback given.
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Students use the BIG Assessment framework to reflect upon their work using green pen or they can be given the assessment criteria.
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Students use the BIG Assessment framework to reflect upon their work using green pen or they can be given the assessment criteria.
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Students use the BIG Assessment framework to reflect upon their work using green pen or they can be given the assessment criteria.
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Encouraging students to reflect upon their work is essential to developing their independence around how to improve.
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Encouraging students to reflect upon their work is essential to developing their independence around how to improve.
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Encouraging students to reflect upon their work is essential to developing their independence around how to improve.
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Using group work, test pupils knowledge with this quick fire assessment activity set around 10 questions.
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Using group work, test pupils knowledge with this quick fire assessment activity set around 10 questions.
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Challenge pupils to produce a presentation related to the lesson lasting no longer than 60 seconds.
Assess your pupils confidence throughout the lesson with this quick AfL activity. Can also be used to show their progress.
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Test pupils reading and listening skills and understanding of the lesson context by using true or false answers.
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Get pupils to reflect on their lesson through looking at the positives and how to develop areas identified for improvement.
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Use the whole class to produce a mind map on a gigantic scale whilst allowing them to support each other.
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Use this exercise as a quick plenary or AfL activity to summarise pupils learning using a combination of individual and paired work.
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Instantly check pupils understanding at any point during the lesson and then use this to target additional focussed support.
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In your room set up an interactive wall display to use for starters,plenaries or AfL activities to engage pupils throughout the lesson.
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Get your pupils to track their learning up the ladder and encourage them to be reflective about their progress.
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Use words and their meanings to assess pupils understanding of the lesson and subject matter. Let the pupils manage the learning.
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In this task pupils are given various written statement. Using these they are then to identify and justify the odd ones out.
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Get your pupils testing each others knowledge with their own self written questions based upon the lessons learning.
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An alternative to using text to check understanding by allowing pupils to analyse pictures related to the lessons objectives.
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Encourage pupils to work in groups through designing their own quizes which they use to compete against each other.
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Get all your pupils rapidly thinking with this quick fire quiz activity to test understanding of the lessons content.
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Take a different approach to AfL by using drawing rather than writing to demonstrate understanding of the lesson content.
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To improve their understanding get your pupils to think about and filter information into levels of importance.
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Ask pupils to rotate around the room to visit and read statements related to the lesson and rank their understanding of them.
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Test your pupils knowledge and understanding through getting them to compose an argument to decide which is best.
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With pupils working in pairs get them thinking about the lesson by giving them true and false statements to analyse.
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