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AfL Links updated

A4Lblog — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 08:05:40 +0000

There is a plethora of materials available for AfL. To save everyone having to look for them all the time, I have updated the weblinks on the del.icio.us site. This is also available as an rss feed. Within Norfolk, the links are also available within the Netmedia VLE. Please feel free to contact us with further links to add to the list.

Writing and the reader’s comment

A4Lblog — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:03:13 +0000

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.

Getting a handle on AfL

A4Lblog — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:50:26 +0000

Some of the strategy materials on assessment for learning are great and really detailed. However, too much detail is often a problem for busy teachers. When I asked an adviser, how she enables people to have a quick introduction to AfL, she pointed out booklet no. 12 in the Pedagogy in Practice pack. Its predictably called ‘Assessment for Learning’ and contains a nice overview of the topic. The section on ‘Helping pupils recognise the standards they are aiming for’ is quite useful, as it is often quite difficult to enable student to understand National Curriculum Levels and other assessment criteria created for Adults.

You can download the booklet here and it’s also in our link collection.