Pupils know:• What they are learning• How they are learning• How they will be assessed• Why they are at ‘x’ level• How to get to next level

Teachers :• Inform pupils of LO/AFs

•Use different teaching methods to allow for learning styles• Assess pupils through different methods

• Make success criteria clear & show how it is achieved• Give clear advice on how to make progress

Learning Objectives:

• All/Most/Some• Levelled

•Must/Could/Should•WALT (what we are

learning for)• WILF (What I am

Looking for)• Pupils identify at a

point in lesson•Also used in plenary • Student friendly

Marking & Feedback:

• Research shows that comment only marking is highly effective.• Common marking key to aid

pupil understanding•APP (Assessing Pupils’ Progress)•Clear target(s) for improvement

• Pupil dialogue• Target stickers

• Comment Bank Stickers• Levelled Stickers

• WWW (What went well)• EBI (Even Better If)

• P.I.E (+ve, Improve/Encourage)• Subject Specific & Positive• Students create mark scheme

Planning & Progression:

• Learning Journeys• Afl informs future teaching

• Identified Self/Peer Ass opportunities• Plan questions

• Plan levelled work• Plan Progression of AFs• Extended Learning Tasks

• PLTSs• Student Led Activities• Learning Ladders

• Flexicam opportunities• Student friendly assessment criteria• Self Evaluation of HOW learning took

place• Exemplar work

• Assessments – effective? Informative? Challenge status quo? Identify

weakness in curriculum/teaching?

Assessment (is) for Learning

Strategies:Thumbs Up/Side/Down

Mini Whiteboards to show answerQuestioning Style

Students as TeachersSharing success/flexicam

Complex Learning JourneysKWL Grids

(Plenary) TrianglesPeer/SelfPost Its

Talk Partners2* & a WishTraffic Lights

Key word monitors

Questioning:• Question Box in the room

• No Hands Up• Wait Time

• Open Vs Closed• Wait & Recap

• Pupil to pupil dialogue• Students write Qs

• Bouncing – ‘bouncing’ the answer from one student to the other to develop the depth of

understanding.•Hinge questions – the questions

which must be understood in order to move on in terms of

learning• Question Stems

What I know

What I want to learn

What I have learnt

What I What I want What IKnow to know learnt

What went well..

Would be better if...

Pupils who have difficulty with some key words (e.g.

photosynthesis) are named key word monitor and have

the task that lesson of spending 5 mins checking

people have used the word/spelt it right/used it

correctly

Why does…?What if…?

How would you…?Could you explain…?

What might…?

Remember these are

strategies to SUPPORT Afl, they are not

the definition of Afl.