These are our expectations for all of our curriculum areas. The purpose of this procedure is to address elements of inconsistency, centralise data systems, be able to report accurately on grades, respond to and implement interventions quickly and to make sure that every curriculum area is meeting a minimum amount of assessments throughout the year.
Every child who attends TSAS will be assessed in the following formats:
Knowledge
tests are set for every unit of work to ensure that the key knowledge
has been learnt by the students in class and in home learning time using
the key knowledge sheets. It must be the same assessment for all
students. There must be at least 10 questions.
Across all year groups summative learning will be assessed and collected centrally within departments to build a picture of progress for the department and individual students. Students must receive feedback for these assessments from WCF and be given time in class to respond to that feedback in green pen.This data will provide us with at least one grade and one percentage for the assessment for every student over each year group.
Whole
class feedback is our approach to feedback for assessments and
learning. There is no requirement for teachers to provide students with
completed WCF templates, or to tick and “mark” books. There is, however,
a requirement to assess learning through work sampling and to give
feedback for summative assessments.
All lessons begin with retrieval practice to find out what students can remember and where they have knowledge gaps. It is important that these low stakes activities are time limited so that they do not dominate the lesson. What is important is the mental process of retrieval to help students remember more. Retrieval should last no more than 10 mins.This can take the form of low-stakes quizzing and low-threat knowledge checks at the start of lessons. Depending on the subject, these could take the form of
Students
should be able to assess their own work in a variety of ways and for a
variety of reasons. Much of this will be dependent on the subject areas
but examples of this are
Self-assessment when done well should not be simply about giving a mark to a piece of work but is about the student being able to give themselves feedback and targets for that piece of work or their next piece of work. All self assessment should be completed in green pen.