1. How do we ensure that AfL focuses on the needs of all our learners?
Chris Brooksbank & Allyson Ingall, Cumbria NUT
13 July 2013
National Education Conference, Stoke Rochford Hall

2. Assessment of learning
National context
Compliance
Assessment of learning
Changes
Accountability

3. Professional Control

4. What is Assessment for Learning?
TASK
What is Assessment for Learning?

5. The simple view of teaching
Help them to learn it
Find out what pupils need to learn
Check what they’ve actually learned

6. Sharing learning intentions
Aspects of AfL?
Marking
Sharing learning intentions
Peer assessment
Success Criteria

7. Key Questions Impact on learners? What to use? When to use?
How to use?
When to use?
What to use?

8. How can I calculate the area of different triangles?
Identify and measure the base and height
Multiply the base by the height
Divide by 2
Record the units in squares
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9. Learning Objective (Y4): How do I write a clear set of instructions?
Child generated success criteria
Title
What you need
How to make
Numbers
Bullet points
Verbs
Time connectives
Diagrams
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10. Learning Objective (Y1/Y2): How can I make a clear poster?
Child generated success criteria:
Make all letters the same size.
Use dark colours
Don’t use yellow
Put pictures round the edge not in the middle
Check you have copied all the words and numbers
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11. Pupil generated success criteria
Learning Objective (Y6): How do I blend watercolour paints and pencils to create a 3D effect?
Drawings
Paintings
Watercolour pencil
Use pencil lightly to begin with
Fill the paper
Use flowing lines
Overlap petals
Use only red, orange, black, white and green
Make sure the brush is not too wet
Complete one petal at a time
Use dark paint on overlapping edges and red paint on outside edges of petals and blend in the middle
Use only black and brown
Make ‘textured’ marks
Use only a small amount
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12. allyson.ingall@talktalk.net 07920 465006
What makes a quality....?
sentence, throw, cake, experiment, map, idea, calculation, argument, drawing, discussion, friend, story, song etc etc
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13. LO: Non-chronological report: sub-headingsMe
Friend
Adult
I can write statements to explain a subheading
I can use paragraphs
I can use features to interest the reader
I can use pictures and diagrams with captions to help explain an idea
I can use 2a sentences
I can use NWWW sentences
I can use list sentences
I can use commas
I can use capital letters for names and places

14. Keep Marking Simple Focused on learning intention & success criteria
Easy to understand
Requires an action
Time is given to respond
Builds confidence
Given and acted on promptly

15. 5 principles of AfL Start from where your learners are
Pupils must understand LO/LI
Pupils need to be active in the process
Pupils need to be able to talk
Feedback must focus on how pupils can improve

16. Assessment for learning: 4 practical aspects
Sharing learning intentions
Asking better questions
Making feedback count
Promoting assessment by pupils

17. Harder aspects of AfL Comment-only marking
Increasing wait time
Self & Peer assessment
Capacity to increase pupils’ learning by 50%?