AfL-Unit2. AfL_A Practical Guide.pdf. Feedback for Learning:Seven Keys to Effective Feedback. Keeping Learning on Track. Feedback: it’s better to receive than to give. As every teacher ought to already know, feedback and formative assessment are the most powerful, most effective things you can be doing.
This means we need to be taking every opportunity to let our students know, “where they are going, how they are going there and what they might go next.” Obvious, isn’t it? Well, maybe not. Here are a few interesting points I have gleaned about the effective use of feedback from Visible Learning for Teachers. Free Resources and Tools for "Authentic" Assessment. New York's School of the Future shares their assessment plans and rubrics, classroom projects, schedules, web links, and other resources to help you implement "authentic" assessment today.
The current faculty and administrators have worked closely on a host of innovations in assessment and curriculum planning over several years. The keys, they say, are trust, transparency, and collaboration -- and providing the professional development and training teachers need to succeed. Credit: Tom LeGoff.