Did you catch the new BtC5 Reporting supplement? This was published over the summer and provides guidance from Scottish Government on reporting on progress and achievement under Curriculum for Excellence.
We thought we’d bring it to your attention just in case you missed it.
Preston Lodge High School were using the in-service on Wednesday 18th August to look at Assessment in Curriculum for Excellence.
I spent the first part of the morning facilitating a number of activities designed to explore Building the Curriculum 5. You can view the presentation and outcomes from this session in the powerpoint below:
After coffee, the Preston Lodge Learning Team delivered workshops sharing the work they have been doing on Assessment. You can view some of these presentations below:
A lot of the dicussions in both sessions centred around the need to involve learners in their assessment and the challenges this poses. In one of the workshops I raised the How We Learn video from Stoneyhill Primary so I’ve embedded this below for convenience:
Thank you so much to the staff at Preston Lodge for having me in and getting involved in some fantastic discussions. And a special thanks to the Learning Team for allowing me to attend their impressive sessions.
Don’t forget, if you’ve got any comments/questions etc please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
The Building the Curriculum 5 summary document says that:
At its most basic, learner engagement requires teachers to share learning intentions and indicate what would constitute good measures of success. Learners also need to receive early and accurate feedback and should be given the opportunity to discuss the teacher’s assessments and their implications for future progress.
However, learner engagement should move beyond these basic requirements. Sound approaches to assessment will help learners to demonstrate what they can do. Therefore, it is appropriate to involve them in choosing and developing assessment approaches and in selecting and summarising the evidence that emerges.
This is pretty challenging stuff. BtC5 is raising the bar and saying it’s not enough to share your learning intentions and success criteria. We now need to involve pupils in the assessment process to a much greater extent. How could this work? Are the pupils up to this level of engagement? Primary 3 at our very own Stoneyhill Primary School agreed to share how they are already involved in the assessment process in the video below.
Some questions for reflection having watched the video:
A huge thank you to P3 at Stoneyhill Primary for sharing.
In their summary of Building the Curriculum 5 David Cameron and Keir Bloomer identify the number one priority as “learner engagement in assessment is crucial”. How do we go about doing this? Here’s a video from Teacher’s TV which could help spark some ideas…
We’ve just discovered through the new Engage for Education website that the summaries of Building the Curriculum 3 and 5 have been published.
The Education Secretary committed to providing more support for teachers though his 10 point plan. Prepared by David Cameron and Keir Bloomer…these new materials will help to do just that, by summarising the key ideas in two of the Building the Curriculum resources. One is focused on delivering learning and teaching and the other on assessment.
Click on the images above to download the documents.