Assessment for Learning: A pathway to progression

Name: Assessment for Learning: A pathway to progression
Brand: Essential Resources
SKU: 5613
Price: 64.95 NZD
Availability: InStock
Author: Angie Simmons
ISBN: 9781927143506

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Angie Simmons

This guide is designed to enrich teachers' understanding of formative assessment and arm them with skills and resources to use it productively. It suggests concrete strategies and activities for putting this model to work successfully in the classroom and encouraging students to become self-regulated learners, thereby raising their achievement levels. Examples of classroom materials and plans, and suggestions for a whole-school approach are included.

Ages: 5-12 | Pages: 48 | Code: 5613 | ISBN: 9781927143506

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Angie Simmons

Angie Simmons is interested in current best-practice learning approaches that encompass thinking skills, collaboration and problem solving. As an experienced educator, she has worked broadly across the educational sector of New Zealand. She worked as a primary school teacher for many years and as a university lecturer, when she was head of an educational technologies programme and taught prospective teachers. In another significant educational role, she was a digital technologies professional development facilitator working with schools across the Auckland area to integrate future-focused learning within the curriculum.

Contents
Introduction	4
What will you find in this book?	5
Assessment as a two-fold process	6
Summative assessment – assessment of learning	6
Formative assessment – assessment for learning	7
Schoolwide assessment	8
Encouraging the development of self regulated learners	9
1. Create a supportive learning environment	9
2. Foster a love of learning	9
3. Put the student at the centre of learning	10
4. Involve students in their learning	10
5. Provide an effective teaching pedagogy – inquiry learning	11
6. Use targeted goal setting	14
7. Implement strategies for qualitative assessment and goal setting	16
8. Share exemplars	18
9. Share learning intentions	19
10. Set and share success criteria	22
11. Use effective questioning techniques	22
12. Use thinking tools (graphic organisers)	24
13. Use effective feedback	24
Key tools for informing and involving students	26
Self and peer assessment	26
Learning conversations	28
Plenary – evaluation	28
Monitoring and reviewing practice	31
Rubrics	31
Practical ideas and activities for the classroom	33
Starters – unpacking student understandings	33
Tuning in to and motivating the students (inquiry learning)	33
Learning activities	34
Planning using assessment for learning strategies	41
Features of effective planning	41
Sample unit plan	41
Implementing a whole-school approach to assessment for learning	46
Professional development	46
Whole-school support	46
Reporting about assessment to parents and carers	47
Web resources	48
References	48