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Is there an Assessment for Learning Bootcamp coming near you?

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Following a number of requests, we are running a limited number of our popular Assessment for Learning Bootcamps at 3 locations in 2019 – woohoo! The workshops will be held on the following location, dates and times: Blackrock Education Centre – 14th November 4.30 – 6.30pm Cork Education Centre – 21st November 4.30 – 6.30pm Limerick Education Centre – 5th December 4.30 – 6.30pm  (Please follow above links for booking information) “I attended the AfL Workshop and […]

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3 Tips from Teacher Toolkit Training

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In June 2019, I travelled to London to attend two days training with Ross Morrison McGill aka Teacher Toolkit. Ross is an experienced school leader, teacher trainer, most influential educational blogger in the UK, author, speaker and currently working on educational research at Cambridge. Ross is passionate about reducing teacher workload whilst increasing teacher impact. He has successfully lobbied the UK government and the inspectorate Ofsted about a number of their practices which were not

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Assessment for Learning in a Nutshell

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The question that comes up regularly with Assessment for Learning (AfL) is: What is it in a nutshell? To extend on that, it can be confusing to distinguish it from Assessment of Learning because the activities can be the same, interchangeable or blended. There is a key difference. Let’s look at the simple descriptions. Assessment of Learning: Usually takes place at the end of learning. Teacher-led. The teacher uses the information to summarise the learning

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5 Ways to make things easier for teachers

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In 2014, a Millward Brown survey conducted found that over half of teachers in Ireland felt ‘continuously stressed’. Hmm… not good. There a range of complex reasons as to way this might be but we decided to explore some tried and tested methods of how schools made things easier for their teachers! Daniella Lang, principal of Brimsdown Primary School in North London, surveyed her teaching staff in 2015 and found that 42% of them felt

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Plan. Ask. Shut Up!

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On the 6th & 7th September, I attended the Embedding Formative Assessment Conference with Professor Dylan Wiliam in Barcelona. Anyone who knows me, understands that Dylan Wiliam is someone I look up to greatly. He is a widely-respected educational researcher and lecturer who specialises in assessment methodologies. I attended a lecture of his many years ago at the Institute of Education in London and it had a huge impact on me as a professional. Being

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