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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...

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.

Getting the best from all learners
Patricia Broadfoot talks about the impact that assessment for learning can have for lower attainers including boys, g...

The potential of assessment for learning
Evidence shows there's no other educational innovation that has such power to raise standards.

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

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

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

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

Observing animals in the local environment
These children are observing minibeasts in the school grounds.

Being Imaginative in the Forest
Using the catalyst of forest school, children are encouraged to be imaginative.

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

Fieldwork in the school grounds
Children make decisions and evaluate their designs for a forest school.

Listening, talking and observing to understand the world
On discovering badger holes, children make observations about their nocturnal life.

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

Project Planning with Staff
Nursery staff meet to finalise details of the forthcoming visit to the local museum.

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

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

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

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

PSED: The Pirates Problem
Boys are making a pirate ship and need to solve a problem, how will they stop intruders?