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Getting classroom assessment right: Evidencing Teachers’ Standard 6

Pupil Attainment & Progress Pedagogy Quality First Teaching Early Career Teachers
Teachers’ Standard 6 requires that teachers make accurate and productive use of assessment. Helen Webb offers guidance for early career teachers to help them improve formative assessment techniques and evidence progress towards Standard 6
Up to standard? Teachers’ Standard 6 requires that early career teachers make accurate and productive use of assessment - Adobe Stock

During the latter part of last year, many of our early career teachers were planning and delivering strong lessons during formal observations. As their induction tutor my focus for feedback became about zoning in and fine-tuning specific Teachers’ Standards to further enhance their practice.

We had a large group of ECTs (13 in total) and, following many formal observations, I noticed that there were frequently patterns of strengths and areas of development across the cohort – perhaps unsurprising given that strengths would logically correlate with strategies that had been subject to a whole school focus that year.

While I continued to give bespoke feedback for individual lesson observations, where there were trends in the areas for development, I was able to collate my feedback and share it with all ECTs.

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