Mike’s Blog
Strategies, Ideas and Insights for Teachers and Leaders
Category: Assessment for Learning
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The AFL Toolkit – Free Resource
Up Your AFL Game with 70 Strategies, Activities and Techniques for You and Your Learners Viewed and Downloaded 825,000+ Times by Teachers Around the World 🎯 Tried-and-tested strategies for use…
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Unlock the hidden connection between effective differentiation and assessment for learning, so you can start using AFL to personalise your teaching today
General Introduction This blog is part of my Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching Knowledge Base. I use the terms differentiation and adaptive teaching synonymously. To me, they are the same, as…
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How to help your learners better understand their feelings and fears around learning, so they can own them, share them, and help you differentiate in the process
General Introduction This blog is part of my Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching Knowledge Base. I use the terms differentiation and adaptive teaching synonymously. To me, they are the same, as…
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Make marking quicker! 60 no-planning, ready-made targets you can use to give feedback on thinking, creativity and attention to detail
Giving feedback takes time. You have to mark learners’ work, assess what they’ve done, and then come up with a response that helps them understand what they’ve done well and…
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Give targets with ease! 60 no-planning, ready-made targets you can use to give feedback on argumentation, content and mastery
Marking takes time. Part of that is down to volume. Part is down to the process of assessment you need to go through. And part is down to the formulation…
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Twenty good-to-go strengths you can use to instantly give your learners feedback on how they are working with others
Having ready-made strengths and targets on hand gives you a scaffold you can use to speed up and streamline your feedback. When we assess learner work, we judge it against…
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Make your life easier! 60 no-planning, ready-made strengths you can use to give feedback on speaking and listening, language, vocabulary, reading and writing
Having a bank of strengths on hand when you’re marking can really help speed up the process. It streamlines your feedback, because you don’t have to think of all your…
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Streamline your marking! 60 no-planning, ready-made strengths you can use to give feedback on thinking, creativity and attention to detail
Marking takes time, especially when you’re writing out formative feedback for your learners. You can speed up the process by having a bank of ready-made strengths and targets on hand.…
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Simplify your feedback! 60 no-planning, ready-made strengths you can use to give feedback on argumentation, content and mastery
Giving feedback can be time-consuming. Identifying what learners have done well and what they need to do to improve takes time. When you have thirty learners in your class, the…
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Regain balance in your marking! 40 no-planning, ready-made targets you can use to give feedback on critical thinking and how learners assess their own work
Sometimes we get bogged down in marking. It takes time and it’s hard to simplify. However, there is one tool we can use that goes a long way to making…