A4L, AfL or Assessment for Learning

I read this fascinating post on Konrad Glogowski’s blog of proximal development. Konrad points to the need for engaging with pupils on the level of ideas and describes how his students suddenly pay notice and read with interest the feedback they are given on their essays. It rang a bell with me, as I used to teach MfL some time ago. We always felt at the time, that responding to pupils in a conversational manner, commenting and discussing on aspects of what they had said, rather than on sentence construction, grammar, form etc.

I do struggle to see the application of this to all other subjects, perhaps other people could help with this.

Thanks to Mark Berthelemew for pointing this post out to us.