The Penrice Experience

Skills audit

Following an assessed piece of work, students could complete a self assessment of their skills. It is best if you produce a list of criteria against which they can measure themselves; you could take this from GCSE or A Level criteria. Based on the results of this audit, students can then select a task in order to develop their weakest skill, or they could focus on developing their weakest skill in the next task/assessment.

Differentiated because: Students are identifying their own strengths and weaknesses from a standard list, and choosing to develop this. Each student therefore has a personalised target, or set of targets.

Provides challenge because: the standard list could itself contain gradated criteria, allowing the most able students to develop top level skills as their target. Alternatively you could offer moderated GCSE criteria in Year 9 for example.

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Ideas for stretching the most able: Week 6