Continuing your professional development
Thank you for joining us on this course. We hope you have found it interesting and it has given you information and ideas that will help you in your own …
Course: Planning for Learning: Formative Assessment
Course summary from Chris & Dylan and next steps
Thank you for joining us on this course. We hope you have found it interesting and it has given you information and ideas that will help you in your own …
Reflecting on your professional development
Well done for reaching the final part of the course, where you’ll review your learning and record your professional development. Jane and Mark will record their reflections of the course …
Classroom task: Gathering students’ thoughts
How your students feel about the activities they engage in is important. As mentioned in the previous step your task is to put together a questionnaire to find out how …
Mentors’ video diary and your advice to colleagues
Jane and Yeasmin recorded their second video diary on 14 July with a selection of highlights from course discussions and Padlet activities. Next week we will consider in more detail …
Mentors’ video diary and your choice of comments
Jane and Yeasmin will be recording three video diaries during the course. Please keep an eye out for their requests to include your comments in the video. Learning from others …
Summary: starting points for teaching
This week you have explore the importance of planning for formative opportunities. You’ve considered planning using misconceptions and sources of evidence of misconceptions. You’ve then explored the significance of sharing …
Challenging Students’ Misconceptions
Below we provide an extract from an article discussing the importance of teaching to challenge students’ misconceptions. Although the article is written from the perspective of developing students’ ideas in …