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Formative Assessment (AfL) supplies the strategy to support effective teaching, and to make learning deep and sustained. Trainee teachers need to develop confidence in using this method, in order to apply it in their own teaching practice and ensure pupils' learning is deep and sustained.
Co-Construction: The Active Involvement of Children in Shaping Learning
Co-Construction: The Active Involvement of Children in Shaping Learning
In this chapter we look at the pedagogic transactions between teacher and student. Not all children want to participate in their own learning; in this chapter we consider how the teacher can help to shift the student's attitude to active involvement in their own learning.
Generalisation is inevitable when an observer describes the profile of any class. There are always some children in the class who are willing to work harder in order to be noticed, to win praise, to outperform or out-score their peers, or for a range of other reasons, including to learn more. These students therefore fit well with formative assessment, because to work well ...
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