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Overview
Assessing science enables teachers to track pupils' progress in order to inform future teaching and learning. With the loss of the level descriptors teachers will have to monitor and track pupils’ progress in science in a different way. This course starts with help and advice on how to do this before moving on to ideas and activities to help with Assessment for Learning (formative assessment). Participants will have the opportunity to explore a range of Assessment for Learning techniques and strategies for confirming progress and will consider how they can be implemented in the primary classroom.
Dates and venue
Start Date: 14 January 2014
Venue: Keele Science Learning Centre
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to:
- Know how to track pupil progress in science using curriculum 2014
- Use a range of Assessment for Learning strategies effectively to promote children's learning
- Make confident and reliable teacher assessments of science and identify children's next steps
Tutor
Primarily Science
Pre Course Task
Complete the Intended Learning Form of the Impact Toolkit.
Teachers will leave with the “Assessing and tracking primary science in curriculum 2014” pack produced by Primarily Science.
This can then be freely adapted to suit the needs of individual schools.
Contacts
Keele Science Learning Centre
Keele University
Staffordshire
ST5 5BG
T: 01782 734 429
E: kslc@keele.ac.uk
F: 01782 734 430

