Assessment and the Art of Lazy Teaching
English skills: an easier life for teachersThe ‘Assessment and the Art of Lazy Teaching‘ session is designed to enable staff to:
- use their understanding of the Fifty Shades of Assessment to select appropriate informative assessment strategies for different types of lesson.
- review current lesson plans and, where necessary, add new informative assessment strategies.
These outcomes should also enable delegates to:
- more effectively monitor the progress of learning over time.
Collaborative resources
- Feedback and rewards
- Assessment and the Art of Lazy Teaching – Card deck for game 1
- Assessment and the Art of Lazy Teaching – Card deck for game 2
- Assessment and the Art of Lazy Teaching – Fifty Shades Full Deck
Session resources
- Assessment and the Art of Lazy Teaching – Handout
- Fifty Shades of Assessment – pdf version
- Assessment and the Art of Lazy Teaching – Presentation
- Learning Outcome Builder
- Glossary of judgement words
Resources for further exploration of assessment
- Principles of Assessment – Mhairi McAlpine.pdf
- Donald Schön, The Reflective Practitioner, and The Comparative Failures of Legal Education
Other resources you may find useful
- The Formula for Happiness
- ArtsWork – A film about how outstanding teaching transforms learners’ lives. Includes examples of outstanding teachers at work.
- Excellence in the Arts: Beyond the comfort zone
- Six short films showing outstanding use of technology
- Stop learners handing written work in late – ever again
Other sessions you may find useful
- Supercharged Evaluation Skills
- Learning Outcomes for Independent Learning
- English skills: an easier life for teachers
- Inspiring Induction Practices
- The Evaluative Conversation: Transformational Lesson Observation
Have your say:
Did the session help you understand how commonplace teaching habits can reduce or deny the development of learners’ independent learning skills? Are you now able to see how you can constructively review your own practice? Please use the comments form to the right to leave us your thoughts. Are you experimenting with learners’ independent learning skills, and would you be willing to share your ideas for the benefit of others? Please use the email address on the Contact page and we’d be delighted to add your example to our growing resource.
HI TONY,
I LEARNED A LOT FROM THE SESSION YESTERDAY. I WILL DEFINITELY EXPLORE SOME OF THE ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES THAT I CAN UTILISE WITH MY GROUP. IT WAS GOOD TO LEARN FROM OTHER PARTICIPANTS TOO.
WOULD THERE BE A CERTIFICATE FOR THIS WEBINAR?
THANK YOU.
Thank you very much, Olive. I really enjoyed the session. And yes, I’ll organise some CPD evidence certificates – that’s a great idea.
This was an excellent session that really made the staff think about assessment and how to put the focus on improving students rather than increasing their own workload.
Very useful insight into the different methodologies and with a log to help for planning.
thanks
Debs