Up Your AFL Game with 70 Strategies, Activities and Techniques for You and Your Learners
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🎯 Tried-and-tested strategies for use across the curriculum.
🎯 Elicit information about where your learners are at, open up success criteria, and give effective formative feedback.
🎯 Suitable for primary and secondary.
🎯 Easily weave new and familiar techniques into your planning and teaching.
🎯 Finesse your lessons so learners target their efforts more effectively, freeing you up to circulate, support and raise achievement.
Assessment for learning never goes out of fashion because its fundamentally about the foundations of effective teaching.
- ✅ Eliciting and using information.
- ✅ Opening up success criteria.
- ✅ Giving formative feedback.
Those three things comprise assessment for learning.
If you do all three on a regular basis (ideally, every lesson), you’re doing AFL.
And with The AFL Toolkit, you’ll have seventy strategies on hand that you can use to help you achieve your goals.
Tailor Your Teaching to Learners’ Needs Without Generating Additional Workload
Assessment for learning is about efficient teaching.
Not in a mechanistic sense.
Not in a ‘teachers are getting replaced by AI’ sense.
But in the sense of the teacher using their time effectively, tailoring what they do so it closely matches learners’ needs, and targeting learners’ effort so it produces great outcomes.
All of which means our time in the classroom is used efficiently.
Giving us and our learners the best chance of experiencing success – and repeating that success again and again.
The AFL Toolkit is FREE to download and FREE to use.
It is published by Gershon Learning Limited under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Creative Commons license.
That means you can download it, freely share it and redistribute it with attribution and a link to this site, but you cannot use it for commercial purposes or create any derivatives of it.
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What’s Inside?
Here’s a sneak peak of some of the strategies, activities and techniques waiting for you inside The AFL Toolkit:
- 🎯 Learners Write Questions
- 🎯 ‘Might’
- 🎯 Exemplar Work
- 🎯 Making Aims Clear
- 🎯 Articulate Then Answer
- 🎯 One-Sentence Summary
- 🎯 Idea Thoughts
- 🎯 Bouncing
- 🎯 Incorrect Discussion
- 🎯 Invert the Question
- 🎯 Conveying Progress
- 🎯 KWL
- 🎯 Why is it best?
- 🎯 Regulating Learning
- 🎯 Squares
Using The AFL Toolkit in Your Planning
The AFL Toolkit is non-directive and curriculum agnostic.
You can use the strategies inside any way you like.
Here are three ideas to get you started.
✅ Read through the toolkit and pick out ten strategies, activities or techniques you like the sound of, haven’t used before, or want to start using again.
Rank these from ‘I’m most keen to implement this’ to ‘I’m happy to wait until I implement this’.
You now have a roadmap you can use over the course of a couple of terms to develop you use of AFL.
✅ Identify one strategy you think could make a real difference for your learners.
Focus on implementing this consistently over the course of four weeks.
At the end of the four weeks, reflect on how effective the strategy has been and how your understanding of it has changed during that time.
✅ Look through the toolkit with a colleague.
Identify two or three strategies you both want to try. Decide which one you want to do first, which second, and which third.
You should both focus on trialling the strategies at the same time (over a fortnight, say).
At the end of the trial, sit down together and share your experiences.
How did it go? What worked? What didn’t work? Are you going to stick with the strategy moving forwards? Then, repeat with the next item on your list.
P.S. You can access all my resources in one place on the free resources hub page.
P.P.S. For dozens more guides, ideas, strategies and techniques, check out my FREE Assessment for Learning Knowledge Base.
