Activating APP to Ensure Progression

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APP can impact upon student progress through its use for standardising assessment, monitoring and intervention at a curriculum level.

APP can be an opportunity to review AFL in the English Classroom.

APP can be an exciting way to re-invigorate schemes of work, lessons and activity banks.

Activating APP into the Curriculum

Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1

The Novel Great Lives Poetry of World

Reading: AF1, AF2, AF3 Reading: AF1, AF2, AF4 Reading: AF4, AF5, AF6, AF7

Writing: AF1, AF7, AF8 Writing: AF2, AF3, AF4, AF6 Writing: AF7, AF8

HTA: Reading Focus – Essay on charcter/plot HTA: Writing Assessment – ‘Extended Biography’ HTA: Reading Assessment – ‘Poetry Analysis’

The Novel Journalism and Advertising Shakespeare

Reading: AF4, AF5, AF6 Reading: AF1, AF2, AF3 Reading: AF5, AF6, AF7

Writing: AF2, AF3, AF7 Writing: AF1, AF2 Writing: AF2, AF8

HTA: Reading Assessment – ‘SATs style paper based on extract analysis’

HTA: Writing Assessment – Newspaper article HTA: S & L Assessment – ‘Group performances’

The Novel Gothic Horror Romeo and Juliet

Reading: AF1, AF2, AF5, AF7 Reading: AF1, AF2, AF3 Reading: AF2, AF4, AF5, AF6, AF7

Writing: AF1, AF4, AF5, AF6, AF7 Writing: AF2, AF5, AF6 Writing: AF1, AF2, AF3

HTA: SATs style extract analysis on extended passage HTA: Writing Assessment – ‘Gothic Short Stories’ HTA: Mock SAT – ‘Reading/Writing Paper’

Planning Examples

Formal Assessments

Surname Forename

KS3 Forecast Eng Key Stage 3

Forecast Dec

Progress Again FFT

Forecast

HTA 1 - SATs style novel test

HTA 2 - Gothic Story

HTA 5 - WW1 Essay

HTA 4 - Shakespeare

BAKER Jamie 5.4 0.475 4.75 6 6.25 6.5

BEDNARSKA Marta 6.00 0.25 6.25 6.25 6.25 6.25

DAVIES Ben 5 -0.3125 4.5 4.5 4.25 5.5

Intervention Weeks & Personalised Units

Year 7 - Spring 1 Intervention following autobiographical writing.

Writing AF3 and AF4Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4

AF3Level 3/4Sequencing/openings and closings

AF3Level 4/5Building an overall structure and cohesion

AF4Level 3/4Using paragraphs

AF4Level 4/5Linking Paragraphs

Activating the Student Response

Progress can only be ensured if the pupils are part of the process

Current Student Perceptions

“Our students understand and value purpose, and we must have a classroom system that builds daily on practices that motivate students through their own learning.”

D. Kafalas (Inspired Learners, Active Minds)

“In English we just do different things.”“I always know what topic I’m doing in Science. Then

we have a test on that subject to know I’ve learnt it all”

“We did lots of things last year, but I never knew what we were going to do at the end of term at the beginning. Maybe that would have helped me do better in my level”

Student Ownership of APP

Impact of Student Voice on Lessons

‘Planning and clear objectives are important aspects of teaching - but then so is the cultivation of a sense of adventure in learning and reflection on experience’

‘There is a parallel between the teacher’s and the novelists art - to be successful, the openings, especially of either a school lesson or a novel must both disclose and withhold information’

Learning Conversations and Feedback

Resourcing APPAF Wall

AF Arrows

Modelling and Collaborative Learning

Collaborative Learning and APP

Questioning Students must be taught that good readers and poor readers become

confused as they read. The difference is that good readers know when they are confused and

they ask questions. We model asking difficult questions to which we don't know the

answers, and we publicly demonstrate our journey to answer those questions Wormeli, 2006

Written Conversations (AF6)

What’s the impact of the narration at the start?Student 1 Student 2

It seems really emotional, maybe because it’s first person. What do you think?

I agree. But do we believe everything she is saying?

Activating APP in the Classroom

Active learning shifts the focus from the teacher and delivery of course content to the student and active engagement with skills.

(Gibson, 1998)

AF Teaching Strategies

Creating a Writing Culture

KS4 Transition

GCSE Pathways Year 9 Writing SOW:

Commissions Speaking and

Listening Units

Summary

APP is more than a framework for assessment

It can be an opportunity to review AFL strategies

APP can refine and inspire new classroom approaches