The document discusses formative assessment practices and challenges at Sishya School in Hosur. It notes the use of formative assessments as prescribed by CBSE, reduced continuous testing, avoiding revision tests, and individualized education programs for challenged students. It also mentions differentiated instruction in some units. However, it outlines constraints like teacher attrition requiring new orientations, large class sizes of 40 diverse students, focus on competency and exams, time-bound syllabus completion, and parental acceptance of differentiation.

1. Scenario in Sishya School, Hosur
•Use of Formative Assessments as prescribed
by the CBSE
•Reduction in continuous testing
•Avoiding revision tests
•Special Education support for academically
challenged students with Individualized
Education Programmes
•Differentiated Instruction in some units.

2. Constraints in my School
• Attrition of teachers-needing fresh orientation on new
techniques for new teachers
• Forty diverse students in classrooms
• Compromising on competency of educators
• Fixation on high stake exam. focus
• Time bound approach to syllabus completion
• Parental acceptance and perception of differentiation