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Formative Assessment Strategies - Secondary

This course will guide you through the planning of learning material that consolidates learning and promotes progress.

913 enrolled on this course

  • Duration

    2 weeks
  • Weekly study

    10 hours

Explore effective methods for consolidating learning

This course aims to support you with planning class activities that consolidate and develop pupils’ knowledge and understanding. You’ll have the opportunity to explore different questioning methods and theories and how to apply these.

What topics will you cover?

  • Styles of questioning
  • Bloom’s taxonomy
  • Question-formulation techniques
  • Encouraging students to think of their own questions
  • Information recall and how to manage this – using stimulus to draw out what learning has occurred during a lesson
  • Project Zero
  • Mantle of the expert – a dramatic enquiry approach to teaching
  • Enquiry-based learning
  • Flipped learning
  • Comparing and contrasting questions used in formative questioning
  • Use of the knowledge of your pupils’ progress in the adaptation of your lesson plan accordingly
  • Consolidating learning at the end of each lesson
  • Testing pupil knowledge to inform progression
  • Homework
  • Key differences between independent and state schools
  • Encouraging constructive peer feedback
  • Pupil response to feedback and its impacts on target setting
  • Target setting with pupils

Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Develop class activities to consolidate and develop pupils’ knowledge and understanding
  • Explain how to select homework that is purposeful in consolidating and developing pupil learning
  • Lead pupils to contribute to feedback, marking and target-setting by guiding levels of personal responsibility
  • Explain how to effectively plan questioning to assess pupil learning
  • Apply different questioning methods and theories
  • Explain the common errors of questioning which leads to misidentification of pupils’ knowledge and understanding

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for PGCE trainees.

Who developed the course?

Coventry University

Coventry secured 5 QS Stars for Teaching and Online Learning in the QS World University Ranking 2020 and has received No. 1 in the world for Massive Open Online Courses in MoocLab’s World University Ranking 2021.

  • Established

    1992
  • Location

    Coventry

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  • Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
  • Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores

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  • Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
  • Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
  • Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others

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  • Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control

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