Summary
Contents
Subject index
Assessment is central to teaching and learning, yet is one of the most difficult areas of professional practice. This book guides trainee secondary teachers through its complexities and provides practical strategies, exemplified by case studies. It examines issues such as diagnosing problems, sharing learning objectives, assessment as a tool for motivation, effective planning, using evidence to adapt teaching, peer and self assessment, learning through dialogue and understanding formative assessment. Targeted specifically at trainees, this text links explicitly to the new QTS Standards, and its tasks provide opportunities for reflection and for practising the range of skills involved in assessing pupils.
Your Future Development
Your Future Development
Chapter objectives
By the end of this chapter you should have:
- begun to put together the various strands from this book to think about how you can use assessment in the classroom;
- understood that ideas relating to assessment need not remain static;
- developed purposeful strategies that will lead towards reflective practice as an important aspect to your development as a teacher;
- analysed ‘reflection-in-action’ and ‘reflection-on-action’ as keys to understanding the links between teaching, learning and assessment;
- built on, and developed, the practical task from Chapter 1 into a personalised needs analysis;
- developed strategies that focus on your students as a source for reflective action and for the formation of personal targets in the area of assessment.
Professional Standards for QTS
This chapter will help you to meet the following ...
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