Introducing Assessment for Learning
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- Course level: All Levels
About Course
National STEM Learning CentreDescription
Guided by leading experts in assessment for learning, on this course you’ll discover how to gauge your learners’ understanding, so that you can better progress their learning.
You’ll discover how you can create a classroom culture that allows difficult ideas to surface, revealing student misconceptions and allowing you to tailor your teaching to your students. You will learn the key principles of assessment for learning, before exploring two approaches in more detail..
Who will you learn with?
Professional Development Leader, specialising in STEM employed at York University and in Lincolnshire schools.
Educational consultant for primary and secondary schools, specialising in improving science teaching, and promoting positive behaviour for learning.
Who developed the course?
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.
What Will I Learn?
- Identify the main principles of assessment for learning
- Reflect on the role of intentional dialogue in supporting teaching in a formative way
- Develop your use of hinge-point questions to elicit evidence from students
- Collaborate with peers, educators and mentors to try out activities and share thinking, in order to develop your teaching practice
Topics for this course
Developing your formatively-driven classroom
Educator viewpoint: encouraging more talk00:01:38
Your understanding of intentional dialogue
Creating an environment for classroom talk
It gives me new innovative techniques and teaching learning skills. I used in my teaching and caters the students knowledge and skills in a better way.
This course is beautifully prepared and knowledge has been shared in an exquisite way by giving proper emphasis on cardinal points .
This course has added so much to my knowledge and will definitely prove useful in my professional career.
Its important as educators to find new ways of teaching and incorporate different and interesting methods to teach.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- This course would suit teachers, curriculum leaders, teaching assistants, newly qualified teachers, trainee teachers and others involved in the education of young people.