Colette Gleeson is a primary school teacher with an interest in pupil well wellbeing and resilience. She strives to look after the most vulnerable children and to make school a happy and safe place for them whilst giving them the tools …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …