Mike Gershon’s Knowledge Base
The Assessment for Learning Knowledge Base
Welcome to the Assessment for Learning Knowledge Base
Assessment for learning is simple.
It involves three things.
- ✅ Eliciting and using information.
- ✅ Opening up success criteria.
- ✅ Giving formative feedback.
If you can do those three things every lesson, or across a couple of lessons, then you’re doing assessment for learning.
Eliciting and using information, so you have a clearer understanding of where learners are at and can use this to adapt your teaching and future planning.
Opening up success criteria, so learners better understand what they need to do to be successful and can, therefore, target their efforts more effectively.
Giving formative feedback, so learners can access your expertise and use this information to change how they do things, helping them make faster progress.
The challenge is to master it.
And to do it consistently, in a way that works for you and speaks to the needs of your learners.
Here, I’ll help you to do that.
You’ll find over 30 blogs containing dozens of practical strategies, along with 200 ready-made strengths and 200 ready-made targets you can use to speed up your written formative feedback.
Most of the blogs are short, sharp and to the point.
Practical ideas you can quickly adapt and apply.
If you want to go deeper and develop your thinking further, you’ll find blogs and articles clustered together in groups.
Reading a group is like reading a chapter of a book, giving you scope to dig deep into a particular topic.
Plus, you can also download my FREE resource, The AFL Toolkit.
There you’ll find 70 strategies, activities and techniques you can use to develop your AFL practice.
It’s already been viewed and downloaded over 800,000 times by teachers around the world.
Now you can secure your copy of the latest version, fully updated and redesigned.
And if you want to dive deeper into mastering assessment for learning, join me on my CPD platform, Mike Gershon’s Effective Teaching and Learning. It’ll be a pleasure to welcome you as a member.
Navigate the Assessment for Learning Knowledge Base
Making Sense of Assessment for Learning
How to Elicit and Use Information in Any Classroom
Master the Art of Peer-Assessment in Your Lessons
Create Self-Assessment Opportunities with Impact
Start Giving Feedback More Quickly and More Easily
The Fundamental Nature of How We Make Judgements
Overcoming the Barriers to Effective AFL
