Teachers’ agenda

1. Introduction

Pairing for lesson observations.

We are learning to share successes and failures, and support each other, and to establish effective ways of working collaboratively.

Handout 1.1.1 What is formative assessment all about?

2. Starter activity

Think of something that you are looking forward to this school year. When it is not your turn, your role is to listen actively.

3. Feedback

Use ‘my personal action plan’. Each person has one minute to share a formative assessment technique that they have used successfully.

4. Working collaboratively

Evaluating how we work as individuals in a group: handout 1.1.2 Norms of collaboration inventory.

How we will work as a TLC group: handouts 1.1.3 Lessons from the geese and 1.1.4 Ground rules for TLC.

5. Personal action planning

Complete ‘my personal action plan’, choosing one or two techniques you are going to use during the next month and what you will do less of. Share your plan with your partner, then listen to your partner’s plan.

Arrange for your partner to observe you using one of these techniques in a class and give you feedback, and agree when the observation will take place (it can be for a whole lesson or just for 20 minutes at the start, middle or end of a lesson). Use the peer lesson observation sheet; the teacher and the observer keep a copy each.

Two or three teachers share with the group what their partner is planning.

6. Summary of learning

Name something you learned in this workshop (no repeats).