Plenary with Anthony Green: Putting assessment for learning to work in the language classroom
Assessment for learning (AfL) promises to improve teaching and learning using evidence gathered from everyday classroom practices such as group work, discussion, and observation.
AfL does not seek to make additional administrative or bureaucratic demands on teachers. Instead, it is a mindset focused on giving students the motivation and ability to become more effective, independent, life-long learners.
The presentation will include suggestions for classroom activities that support the three key practices identified by research as underpinning successful assessment for learning:
- diagnostics: finding out where learners are
- learning intentions: making clear what is being learned
- success criteria: ensuring that students understand what success involves.
Choose the session that is right for you:
Primary with Nick Manthei: Making reflection fun
Secondary with Elna Coetzer: The ‘what’, the ‘when’, the ‘how’ and the ‘why’ of AfL.
Adult with Emrah Kocabuğa: Shaping student learning with a flexible approach
Agenda
17:00 BST Plenary with Anthony Green: Putting assessment for learning to work in the language classroom
18:10 BST Primary with Nick Manthei: Making reflection fun
18:10 BST Secondary with Elna Coetzer: The ‘what’, the ‘when’, the ‘how’ and the ‘why’ of AfL.
18:10 BST Adult with Emrah Kocabuğa: Shaping student learning with a flexible approach
Nick Manthei is an OUP teacher trainer based in Turkey. He has eleven years of classroom experience – the majority of that spent in primary schools. He has taught in South Korea and Turkey and given training to teachers in many parts of the globe....
Emrah Kocabuğa is a Regional Coordinator and Teacher Trainer at Oxford University Press, based in Ankara. He graduated from European University of Lefke English Language Teaching Department in 2007 and completed his MA degree in 2009 at the same...
South African-born Elna Coetzer works as a teacher trainer and educational consultant with the International Training Institute in Istanbul and Oxford University Press among other organisations.
She worked as a teacher and director of studies...
Anthony Green is Director of the Centre for Research in English Language Learning and Assessment and Professor in Language Assessment at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. He is the author of Exploring Language Assessment and Testing (Routledge),...