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Tag: self-assessment strategies
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Instantly simplify self-assessment for every learner you teach, so they can look at what they’ve done and accurately assess how they need to improve
Learners can find self-assessment complex. This is partly down to perception, where learners see self-assessment as more challenging than it actually is. And it is partly down to uncertainty, with…
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Pass ownership of how to make judgements to your learners and watch as they start seeing self-assessment as more powerful and more meaningful than ever before
Creating Success Criteria With Your Learners If learners understand what their work is being judged against, they can target their efforts more effectively. This is because they know what they…
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Train your learners to improve their work before you even get anywhere near to marking it
Redo, Redraft, Rewrite It’s so often beneficial to ask learners to look back over their work and improve it before it gets to you for marking. Not that they always…
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Take a break from the short-term and focus on the long-run instead with two self-assessment techniques that get learners thinking about the bigger picture
Visualise Progress with a Learning Journal Learning journals visualise progress over time. They are a place where learners can capture their self-assessments. As the journal gets filled up, learners can…
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Give your learners the tools they need to quickly and accurately identify strengths in any piece of work they produce
Identifying Strengths I have found it to be the case in teaching, and in life in general, that many people struggle to identify their own strengths. If learners are to…
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Five straightforward ways you can help your learners set themselves meaningful, relevant targets, every time self-assessment is on the agenda
Self-assessment opens up success criteria. It helps learners better understand what their work is being judged against. What good looks like. Opening up success criteria is one of the three…
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Why is putting a work discussion in your lesson plan a good way to help learners develop their speaking and listening skills while also getting them to think more critically?
Work Discussion Discussion Strategy: Explanation The teacher sets learners a major piece of work. Examples of what this might entail include an extended piece of writing, an independent project or…