Elements of AfL

  • Ethos
  • Attitudes
  • Learning environment
  • Routines and behaviours

More focus should be placed on:

  • Use of curricular targets
  • Designing opportunities for learning
  • Sharing objectives
  • Sharing success criteria
  • Oral written feedback
  • Peer and self-assessment

Strategies for day to day assessment

  • Questioning
  • Observing
  • Discussing
  • Analyzing
  • Checking understanding
  • Feedback

How should children be more involved?

  • Encourage them to be more evaluative
  • Give them time to review and feedback to each other
  • Encourage them to act on advice
  • Invite them to articulate their success.

Sharing objectives

  1. Discussing with children at the start of a unit of work what they
    alreadyknow about the topic and what they would like to know or
    learn about.
  2. Concept mapping Mind Maps are often useful
  3. Providing a visual display of the coverage of a unit of work, showing connections
  4. Presenting the unit coverage as a list of questions to be
    explored.You will use phrases such as:
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