This document outlines strategies for self and peer assessment in education, emphasizing their importance for student learning and improvement. It includes various activities such as 'two stars and a wish,' 'secret admirer,' and 'traffic light' for teachers and students to evaluate performance against success criteria. The goal is to foster a reflective learning environment where students can articulate their understanding and identify areas for growth.

1. Self-Assessment for Self-Improvement Assessment for Learning

2. “ Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach”

3. Objectives • To understand the importance of self and peer assessments; To learn new strategies for peer and self-assessment; To understand the significance of plenary sessions

4. Continuum of Feedback 1. Pupil self-assessment against success criteria 2. Peer assessment 3. Teacher assesses Pupil orally 4. Teacher marks against success criteria and sets a target: ‘Next time…’ 5. Discussion of marking

5. Key Questions for You How are you discerning what the students have learned from the lesson? How are they discerning what they have learned and established how to improve ?

6. Key Questions for Students What did you learn this lesson that you did not know before? Which part of the lesson did you most enjoy ? Which part of the lesson could you use a bit more help with? Which of your achievements are you most proud of this lesson?

7. “ A teacher’s constant task is to take a room of live wires and see to it they’re grounded.” (E.C. McKenzie)

8. Every Lesson Share W.A.L.T. (learning specific, not activity specific). Refer to it throughout the lesson Share success criteria (ideally, kids have copy) Exemplar work to assess or improve Make a point of giving time to reflect on your marking comments, esp. ‘Next time…’ Have pupils refer to their target for improvement

9. Self and Peer Assessment Can’t expect the girls to make a fine distinction between a ‘level 3c’ and a ‘level 3b’, but we can expect them to evaluate their learning ‘ Make it neater next time ’ or ‘ Make it sound more good’

10. No Desserts Contain Brussels Sprouts

11. Two Stars and a Wish (Peer Assessment) Two things they wish to compliment their peer on (the stars)… … and one thing they think could be improved (the wish) Make sure they know the lesson objective and what they are looking for (the success criteria)

12. Secret Admirer Assign each member of class to someone else in secret. The admirer’s task is (without admitting to it) to pay their admire a sincere compliment about their contribution to the project/group task in secret – by writing anonymously on a scrap of paper and redistributing

13. Guess Who? Assign an admirer as you did with ‘Secret Admirer’, but rather than secretly submit their positive observation, the pupils announce their statement, starting with the phrase ‘The person I was admiring did/made/said/showed…’ and the class is left to guess who the admire was.

14. Role Reversal Teacher takes on the role of a student who is not quite getting it right! Students to grade your performance against the success criteria Link with ‘traffic light’ – red if you’re getting it wrong; green if right, etc.

15. Challenge Mum Girls have to spend 5-10 minutes ‘teaching’ a parent about the concept covered in class. The student and the parent then complete the homework, and evaluate each other against the success criteria.

16. Success Sorting You require a series of cards or statements which the girls need to exhibit in order to succeed on the assignment, as well as some cards detailing skills and features that would be distracting or erroneous. Girls then sort which card belongs in each class.

17. Plenary Pals Choose a small group/pairs to run the plenary session Stop before rest of class to give them time to prepare Their job is to link back to the main objective – the W.A.L.T. of the session

18. Colour-Coded Compliments * Students highlight features of work that meet the success criteria * Can extend by asking girls to use another colour to highlight very good examples * And a third colour for areas that could be stronger

19. Recalling facts: Grandma’s Trunk

20. Understanding: Flyswatter

21. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WhuikFY1Pg

22. Pass the parcel Layer of the parcel alternate between a question/task & one containing a small prize, e.g. box of raisins

23. Don’t Skimp or Skip the Plenary! Last five minutes of Dr. Who… Often weakest Often least active Outstanding lessons: an active plenary

24. Trash it Tick marking Bog-standard teacher-led Q&A sessions A selection of students reading out their work (like other people’s holiday photos) ...traffic lights (controversial!)

25. AfL = Super Teacher!