AQA share exam tips
A few months back I asked all the exam boards if they could share the most common exam mistakes made by candidates, common exam blind spots or pot holes. I did ask for trade secrets, nor what was going to be in the …
In tray – concerns and complaints
The in-tray exercise and / or the parent or carer concern / complaint are two common tasks, often presented simultaneously – presumably measuring task management. Here are a few reflections. In-tray Read the tasks, highlight or focus on the key points not the …
Micro Quick Ticket – fast marking MCQs
We are really moving with our Quick Key projects (Validatedlearning). 6 departments are now quizzing and scanning assessments. Two departments are racing ahead, Geography and MFL. Geography are preparing their first whole year assessment, as a precursor to their baseline …
Returned with interest
It is no secret, I am a fan of TripticoPlus. It really does inspire “Imaginative Teachers.” We put our money where our mouth is and pay for the subscription for any staff member at The Wellington Academy that wants one, many do. More …
Quick Key – Assessment in September
With our Key Stage 3 Assessment Outcomes reverse engineered from Key Stage 4 Assess Outcomes we have gone onto designing our long-term plans or progression grids for “Assessment Without Levels.” A number of our Curriculum and Subject Leaders are now focusing their efforts on outlining …
What works, worries me.
The responsibility of leading “Teaching, Learning and Assessment” is a Goliath responsibility. Individually, Teaching, Learning or Assessment all present bespoke challenges, dilemmas and opportunities. Collectively, we can all agree, they impact upon one another. That the inter-play between them is obvious at …
#TLT15 the draft promo
Last #TLT14 was an amazing PD event. It was here I bumped into the great and the good; teachers, leaders, educationalists and supportive companies contributing to a day. Not to mention the significant efforts of the organising team. Tom Sherrington …
Walking, talking mocks – worthwhile
Confidence, reassurance, familiarity (with the environment, with exam rubrics and with questions), reading skills (decoding questions, responding to command words, identifying keywords) writing/responding skills, myth busting, what ever the benefit, walking pupils through an exam paper has benefit. This years vogue (2015), the “walking, talking …