How Do I Know? A Crucial Question for Teachers and Leaders

How do I know? This question sits at the heart of both effective teaching and school leadership. For teachers, it means ensuring that every child is attending to their learning and securing new knowledge. For leaders, it means asking, How do I know that teaching and learning is of high quality? and How do IContinue reading “How Do I Know? A Crucial Question for Teachers and Leaders”

Feedback Culture That Needs Feeding!

A strong culture of responsive feedback is essential for ensuring that assessment is not just a stale summative measure of learning, or worse – performance, but a tool that purposely captures what children have learnt and provides useful next steps to improve future learning. It shifts our focus from assessment of learning (measuring outcomes) toContinue reading “Feedback Culture That Needs Feeding!”