Assessment Essentials

Assessment Essentials focuses specifically on ‘what every teacher needs to know about assessment’.

The course follows a micro-lesson structure, designed to fit around the busy timetable of teachers and is a commitment of around 1.5 hours per week. It includes insight interviews with leading thinkers and practitioners – Dylan Wiliam, Daisy Christodoulou, John Hattie and others who will help your teachers reflect on and develop their practice.

There are two overarching goals of Assessment Essentials:

1. to help make your students learning more visible and, thereby, increase confidence in the dependability of decisions made in the classroom and beyond;
2. to help maximise the power of assessment as a powerful learning tool.

Assessment Essentials will:

• Improve the efficiency of assessment practices, helping you reduce workload – do more with less
• Guide you to question existing practices
• Help you link assessment with curriculum and pedagogy, to improve student outcomes
• Reframe the value of assessment, offering case studies and advice from other school leaders
• Maximise the power of assessment as a tool for learning