Introducing Assessment for Learning
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Duration 3 weeks
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Weekly study 3 hours
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Learn Free
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Use assessment for learning to better support your students in the classroom
On this course, you’ll be guided by leading experts in assessment for learning to discover how to gauge your students’ understanding, so that you can better progress their learning.
You’ll learn how to create a classroom culture that allows difficult ideas to surface so that you can better understand student misconceptions and tailor your teaching accordingly.
You’ll consider the key principles of assessment for learning, before examining two approaches in more detail.
What topics will you cover?
- Key principles of assessment for learning
- Intentional dialogue as a form of evidence of students’ understanding
- Hinge-point questions to respond to students’ learning
Introducing Assessment for Learning provides the starting point for your professional development, from which our subsequent courses will build:
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What will you achieve?
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Who is the course for?
This course would suit teachers, curriculum leaders, teaching assistants, newly qualified teachers, trainee teachers and others involved in the education of young people.
Who will you learn with?
Andrea Mapplebeck
Former physics teacher, now supporting educators to develop teaching. Commissioned by National STEM Learning Centre to work with Dylan Wiliam & Chris Harrison to design & support AfL & DfL courses
Chris Harrison
Reader in Science Education and Chair of ASE 2014-2015. Lead UK Researcher on Assessment for Learning. Research interests in Inquiry-learning, professional learning and CPD.
Dylan Wiliam
Former school teacher, academic, and university administrator, now working with teachers and leaders around the world to improve educational outcomes for young people.
Who developed the course?
National STEM Learning Centre
The National STEM Learning Centre provides world-class professional development activities and resources to support the teaching of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects.
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