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Feedback and classroom dialogue

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

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Giving students the language of assessment

Patricia Broadfoot describes this can help students become autonomous learners.

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Self and peer assessment

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

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Getting the best from all learners

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

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The potential of assessment for learning

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

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Design: Growth Mindset

The teacher encourages children to devise and make some sort of alarm.

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Design: Smoke Alarm

Encouraging thinking skills and growth mindset, this sequence links a design and make acivity to a whoe term class pr...

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Design: choosing resources

Prior to a design and make activity to make as smoke alarm, the teachers shows the class possible resoucres.

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Design, make and evaluate

As learning partners begin construction, they select tools and materials.

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Design and make

Very efffective learning partners engage in a design and make exercise to create a smoke alarm.

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Igniting interest in books

These children are observing minibeasts in the school grounds.

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Assessment and planning cycle

Two practitioners meet to review the outcomes of an earlier activity provoked by a forest school visit.

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Observing animals in the local environment

These children are observing minibeasts in the school grounds.

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Being Imaginative in the Forest

Using the catalyst of forest school, children are encouraged to be imaginative.

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Fairness Photo-line

Groups of children are given the same set of photographs and asked to rank them in order of 'fairness'.

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Fieldwork in the school grounds

Children make decisions and evaluate their designs for a forest school.

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Listening, talking and observing to understand the world

On discovering badger holes, children make observations about their nocturnal life.

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Being Imaginative

Children in this primary school are using an outdoor area close to the school as the stimulus and setting for their p...

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Observing and recording to understand the world

Nursery children mainatian a biird table.

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Project Planning with Staff

Nursery staff meet to finalise details of the forthcoming visit to the local museum.

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Sorting Twigs

These children are sorting twigs into categories by measuring them against the thickness of a little finger.

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Learning from mistakes

Less focussed on outcomes than process, this teacher believes that learning from mistakes helps to build resilience a...

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Developing Metacognition

A primary teacher notes the usefulness of mini-plenaries and learning partners.

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Mathematics: Assessing meaure

Having provided opportunties for her nursery class to improve their skills in measuring, this teacher has designed a ...

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PSED: The Pirates Problem

Boys are making a pirate ship and need to solve a problem, how will they stop intruders?