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

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

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

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

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

Teachers rethinking their roles
Paul Black speaks about the challenges for teachers in assessment for learning.

Nurturing pupils' engagement with learning
Paul Black talks about how learning and motivation can be fostered in the classroom.

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

The school context for promoting AfL
Paul Black talks about these opportunities for teachers to interact and share practice.

Formative feedback versus marks and grades
Paul Black talks about the importance of feedback to pupils.

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

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...

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

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

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.

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...

Improving pronounciation in foriegn languages
This teacher uses French immersively to start her lesson with year 3.

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

Raising standards for lower achieving pupils
Patricia Broadfoot reveals how formative assessment raises GCSE standards by, on average, two grades.

Knowing where they are going
Patricia Broadfoot discusses the importance of setting learning objectives.