Teachers’ agenda

1. Introduction

We are learning to review our formative assessment practice and its impact on student learning.

2. Starter activity

Think of something that you are looking forward to this school year.

When it is not your turn, your role is active listening.

Everyone must be involved in this activity.

3. Feedback

My personal action plan.

Each person has two minutes to share a formative assessment technique they have used successfully since the last workshop.

4. Reviewing our formative assessment practice

Handout 2.1.1: reviewing formative assessment practice in lessons and its impact on the quality of learning.

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. Arrange when the observation will take place (it can be for a whole lesson, or just 20 minutes at the start, middle or end of a lesson). The peer lesson observation sheet is for the teacher and observer to use, and each keeps a copy.

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

6. Summary of learning

Each person names something they learned at the workshop – no repeats.