This document outlines various formative assessment strategies teachers can use to check student progress across a lesson. The strategies include using levelled learning objectives, mini whiteboards, traffic light cards, progress sheets, success criteria, differentiated activities, feedback, self-assessment, and student response pads. The overall aims are to develop formative assessment practices, incorporate different learning strategies, and help students take control of their own learning.

1. Checking Progress Across Lesson
Our Aims:
• To develop the departments use of AFL.
• To use different learning strategies in our
classrooms.
• To inspire our students to take control of their
learning and help them become independent.

2. Checking
progress
What we are already doing...

3. Checking progress
• Levelled Learning Objectives

4. Levelled Learning Objectives
Challenge Objectives (levelled)
Today I will learn to expand and simplify
algebraic expressions.
GCSE Grade D to A*
Key Words
2(3 + m) and 3a(2b – 5a) are Grade D
• Expand
m(4 +p) + p(3 + m) are Grade C
• Simplify
(a + 3)(a – 4) and (a – 3)² are Grade C +
• Brackets (3a – 2)(2a + 4) and (4a – 5)² are Grade B
• Coefficient CHALLENGE OBJECTIVE – expand and
• Bracket simplify surds √3(2 - √3) is Grade A*

5. Checking progress
• Progress sheets for students to complete
during the lesson

6. Checking progress
• Progress sheets for students to complete
during the lesson
Progress Evidence  
2(3 + m)
Grade D
m(4 +p) + p(3 + m)
Grade C
(a + 3)(a – 4)
Grade C +
(4a – 5)²
Grade B
√3(2 - √3)
Grade A

7. Checking progress
• Use of mini whiteboards to illustrate progress

8. Checking progress
• Use of mini whiteboards to illustrate progress
Grade D
5(a + 2) 6(b – 3) c(3 – c)
Show me: 8(d + 2)
9(e – 3)
f(f + 3)

9. Checking progress
• Traffic light cards/ thumbs up thumbs down

10. Checking progress
• 5 to 1
5Super confident
4 Confident
3 OK
2Need help soon
1 Need help NOW

11. Checking progress
• Multiple choice traffic lights

12. Checking progress
• Multiple choice traffic lights
Expand (a + 6)(a + 3) Grade C,
show me the colour of the correct answer
  
a² + 9a - 18 a² + 9a + 18 a² + 18a + 9

13. Checking progress
• Post-it note challenge
Answer the hardest question that you
can.
Once done and put your answer on the
post-it note (on the sticky side)
Put your name on the front.
When you are ready go and stick it on
the wall with the appropriate grade.

14. Checking progress
• Post-it note challenge
Do the hardest question that you can.
Once done and put your answer on the post-it note (on the sticky side)
Put your name on the front.
When you are ready go and stick it on the wall with the appropriate grade.
Expand: 3a(2b – 5a) Grade D
3(4 + a) + a(3 + a) Grade C
(a + 5)(a – 7) Grade C+
(2a – 7)(3a + 2) Grade B
√2(7 - √2) is Grade A*

15. Checking progress
• Use of Success Criteria

16. Checking progress
• Use of Success Criteria
Success criteria to multiply out a double bracket, such as (c + 2) (c – 4)
1. Draw a multiplication grid
2. Put the terms from the 1st bracket into the top of the multiplication grid
3. Put the terms from the 2nd bracket into the vertical columns of the grid
4. Multiply the terms together – be careful with the negatives
5. Write the multiplied terms out under the multiplication grid
6. Simplify where you can (remember you can’t add c² terms and c terms)
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4
x c +2 x c +2 x c +2 x c +2
c c c² +2c c c² +2c c c² +2c
-4 -4 -4c -8 -4 -4c -8 -4 -4c -8
c² +2c -4c -8 c² +2c -4c -8
c² -2c -8

17. Checking progress
• Differentiated levelled work and graded activities
Grade D/C expand and simplify single brackets Grade C+ to B Expand and simplify double brackets
Grade D Grade C +
2(7 + d) (a + 2)(a + 6)
a(3 – 5a) (3 - c)(c + 9)
5b(9 – 4b + a) (a + 4)²
Grade C Grade B
a(2+p) + p(7 + a) (5a + 2)(2a + 3)
d(3 – ad) + 4a( 3 – ad) (3a – 6)(2a + 3)
7b(e – 2b) + 6(be – 2e) (4a – 5)²

18. Checking progress
• Self and peer assessment
Self assessment
   Peer assessment   
Grade D Grade D
2(7 + d) 2(7 + d)
Grade C Grade C
a(2+p) + p(7 + a) a(2+p) + p(7 + a)
Grade C + Grade C +
(a + 2)(a + 6) (a + 2)(a + 6)
Grade B Grade B
(5a + 2)(2a + 3) (5a + 2)(2a + 3)
I’ve done well with... You’ve done well with...
To improve I need to... To improve you need to...

19. Checking progress
• Student response pads

20. Checking progress
• Formative written feedback/ marking grids
Self assessment
  Mrs Phillips thinks...
Grade D 2(7 + d)
Grade C a(2+p) + p(7 + a)
Grade C + (a + 2)(a + 6)
Grade B (5a + 2)(2a + 3)
Your effort has been
Outstanding/Good/Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
I’ve done well with... You’ve done well with...
To improve I need to... To improve you need to...

21. Checking progress a recap...
• Levelled Learning Objectives
• Use of mini whiteboards to illustrate progress
• Traffic light cards/ thumbs up thumbs down
• Multiple choice traffic lights
• 5 to 1
• Post-it note challenge
• Progress sheets for students to complete during the lesson
• Use of Success Criteria
• Differentiated levelled work and graded activities
• Formative written feedback/ marking grids
• Self and peer assessment
• Student response pads

22. Checking progress a recap...
• Levelled Learning Objectives
• Use of mini whiteboards to illustrate progress
• Traffic light cards/ thumbs up thumbs down
• Multiple choice traffic lights
• 5 to 1
• Post-it note challenge
• Progress sheets for students to complete during the lesson
• Use of Success Criteria
• Differentiated levelled work and graded activities
• Formative written feedback/ marking grids
• Self and peer assessment
• Student response pads

23. Checking Progress Across Lesson
Our Aims:
• To develop the departments use of AFL.
• To use different learning strategies in our
classrooms.
• To inspire our students to take control of their
learning and help them become independent.