Comments on: Embedding your formative assessment

By: Sadia Mahmood

Sadia Mahmood — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:29:06 +0000

Thanks a lot. It is indeed very helpful.

By: gpettyedit

gpettyedit — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 16:20:58 +0000

In reply to Sadia Mahmood. A common problem Sadia. I think teachers and indeed institutions must persuade students that education will improve their life prospects, ensure they have a more interesting job, better pay and conditions. They must also persuade students that they can learn even if they have failed to do so in the past - the growth mindset. (See the motivation chapter in my Evidence Based Teaching and the equality and diversity chapter in the 5th edition of my Teaching Today. While you are working on those difficult, time consuming, but very achievable and important project there is no need to activate students as owners of their own learning with peer assesment as they may talk inappropriately, try self assessment and spoof assessment instead. See also the download on classroom management and discipline. geoffpetty.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ClassroomManagement2.doc

By: Sadia Mahmood

Sadia Mahmood — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:23:08 +0000

I work in a school where the students’ level of English is weak and their interest in learning is the least. Learning pace is slow but they are expected to meet the statutory requirements. The most difficult part for me is ‘activating the students as owners of their own learning.’ What would you suggest to the educators when they set the tasks for the students but they see that the students spend their time in playful exchanges instead of getting on task and achieving the goal?