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  • Support for early career teachers
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  • Year 1: First half-term: making productive use of assessment

    • Learning Intentions and Introduction

    Session Elements

    • independent planning
    • reflection

    Learning Intentions for this session

    • Good assessment helps teachers avoid being over-influenced by potentially misleading factors, such as how busy pupils appear.
    • Before using any assessment, teachers should be clear about the decision it will be used to support and be able to justify its use.

    You will learn how to:

    Check prior knowledge and understanding during lessons, by:

    • Using assessments to check for prior knowledge and pre-existing misconceptions. - Structuring tasks and questions to enable the identification of knowledge gaps and misconceptions (e.g. by using common misconceptions within multiple-choice questions).
    • Prompting pupils to elaborate when responding to questioning to check that a correct answer stems from secure understanding.
    • Monitoring pupil work during lessons, including checking for misconceptions.

    Introduction

    In the ECT training session in week 2 and the follow-up meeting with your mentor, you looked at the fundamental principles of effective assessment. In this self-study session, you will extend your knowledge of applying good assessment practice in the classroom. You will use your learning to develop an assessment plan for a few of your pupils. You will follow this up with your mentor in your next ECT mentor meeting.