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Performing better dances

Year 3 children are working on a desert theme inspired by an Egyptians theme.

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Writing composition: The Newspaper

Year 5 are about to write a newspaper article.

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Peer assessment in English

Year 5 children have been writing newspaper articles.

3:53

Fundamentals of assessment for learning

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

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Negotiating success criteria

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

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Understanding the big picture

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

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Inducting pupils into peer assessment

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

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Teachers rethinking their roles

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

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Nurturing pupils' engagement with learning

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

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Assessment for learning with lower attainers

Paul Black talks about its impact on lower attainers.

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Characteristics of the AfL classroom

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

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The school context for promoting AfL

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

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Formative feedback versus marks and grades

Paul Black talks about the importance of feedback to pupils.

2:52

French vocabulary starters

In this primary school, a range of activities are used to make learning a foreign language enjoyable and fun.

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Teaching foreign language vocabulary

A year 5 class are working on naming and describing pets.

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Engaging in conversations

Building on whole class and group work earlier in the lesson, the children use the French to which they have been int...

1:54

Supporting in French

A class teacher, who supports French being taught to her class, talks about her role and experiences.

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Incorporating French into the school day

A class teacher talks about how French is incorporated into the wider curriculum.

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Games broadening vocabulary in foriegn languages

Children use an activity, in which they step on coloured cards in sequence, to revise the names of colours in German.

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Broadening vocabulary in foriegn languages

We see year 6 pupils being taught new vocabulary through a fun game developing their ability to understand the new wo...

2:43

Improving pronounciation in foriegn languages

This teacher uses French immersively to start her lesson with year 3.

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Singing French number names

This brief clip shows pupils being taught to listen attentively to a spoekn foreign language, also joining in and res...

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Language detectives

Year 3 children match number names in French and Spanish.

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Raising standards for lower achieving pupils

Patricia Broadfoot reveals how formative assessment raises GCSE standards by, on average, two grades.

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Knowing where they are going

Patricia Broadfoot discusses the importance of setting learning objectives.