A video from www.teachers.tv:
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Synopsis (from http://www.teachers.tv/video/566)
The second programme on formative assessment provides an opportunity to hear more from Paul Black and Chris Harrison, authors of the influential pamphlet Working Inside the Black Box.
They see questioning as essential to good formative assessment. They identify effective questions and discussion as key to good teaching and learning.
Next, four teachers give us an insight into how questioning and discussion this can be used and applied effectively in the secondary classroom:
At Lord Williams’ School, Oxfordshire, Jon Ryder uses open questioning to provoke discussion amongst his Year 11 science class. Karen Vear uses “wait time” as a strategy to encourage all her pupils to take part in her maths. At Bishop Hatfield School, in his history lesson, Alf Wood encourages pupils to generate their own questions as a way of involving them in their own learning. His colleague Carol Wilding uses whiteboards to allow all her pupils an opportunity to participate in their lesson.
Published: 30 May 2005
March 22nd, 2008 at 9:56 pm
The use of small white boards is a great idea! It strongly encourages students to respond to the question at hand. The teacher has a good sense of who has been thinking. It would be a good idea, I think, to combine the quick sharing between students and then the individual sharing of a response.
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March 24th, 2008 at 11:41 am
It appears that AFL and technology is another tool for assessment. You can overuse any method - get so excited about a new idea and then forget about other things that have worked in the past, just something to be cognizant of.
We are concerned about the senteo’s easy ability to “walk away”, and this type of technology may not be as applicable in industrial arts as in the academic areas.
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