20 videos

Engaging all children in their learning

Mick Waters on successful schools and school improvement.

What is outstanding teaching - 2?

Mick Waters offers a definition of an outstanding teacher.

Characteristics of the AfL classroom

Paul Black talks about interactions, dialogue and noise levels in the 'assessment for learning' classroom.

Nurturing pupils' engagement with learning

Paul Black talks about how learning and motivation can be fostered in the classroom.

What are you working towards in your teaching?

What does a rounded education looks like?

Formative feedback versus marks and grades

Paul Black talks about the importance of feedback to pupils.

Teachers rethinking their roles

Paul Black speaks about the challenges for teachers in assessment for learning.

What does outstanding learning look like?

Mick Waters discusses what you would see in a learning walk around a successful school.

The school context for promoting AfL

Paul Black talks about these opportunities for teachers to interact and share practice.

Negotiating success criteria

Paul Black talks about the importance of negotiating success criteria with pupils.

Inducting pupils into peer assessment

Pupils need to be inducted into peer assessment for it to operate effectively.

Knowing where they are going

Patricia Broadfoot discusses the importance of setting learning objectives.

Feedback and classroom dialogue

Patricia Broadfoot talks the problems with marks and grades, about how feedback must give pointers for improvement in...

Getting the best from all learners

Patricia Broadfoot talks about the impact that assessment for learning can have for lower attainers including boys, g...

Fundamentals of assessment for learning

Paul Black talks about the fundamental features of assessment for learning.

Understanding the big picture

Pupils need to understand how day-to-day learning fits into the bigger picture.

Assessment for learning with lower attainers

Paul Black talks about its impact on lower attainers.

Giving students the language of assessment

Patricia Broadfoot describes this can help students become autonomous learners.

Self and peer assessment

Patricia Broadfoot talks about developing students' skills of self criticism.

The potential of assessment for learning

Evidence shows there's no other educational innovation that has such power to raise standards.