Sheffield 2016 – Resources shared

TSC South West Regional Representative. Sch imp and PM responsibility for White Horse Fed.

Perspective: across TSAs
It is very much my feeling that pupil performance will not be dictated by a number, point or a step. That’s why I have entitled my workshop : ‘Data (as we knew it) is dead!’ I will looking at this from my perspective of working and collaborating across many organisations.

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Head of Learning and Development, AET & HT of Wix and Wrabness PS

Perspective: across TSAs
We have called our workshop, ‘Finding  the Balance’ and are very much looking forward to sharing how we are working as an alliance of schools to find an assessment method that works across the key stages.

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Consultant Headteacher, EOS

Perspective: across MATs
Anyone who know anything about EOS Education will understand why the title of my workshop is: ‘Don’t see things as they are, see them as they could be!’ Looking forward to explore this exciting approach with delegates.

Deputy Headteacher, Castle Hill School

Perspective: SEND
I am going to share our approach to SEND assessment using MAPP as an ongoing assessment tool linked with P levels, the achievement continuum and EYFS. Thinking together about how to keep up with the changing needs.

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English/Literacy/EAL teacher; Regional Groups Coordinator NALDIC
The title of our workshop is ‘Multilingual Matters’. Come to our workshop and discuss the principles of EAL Assessment, with examples of approaches to make the most of your EAL Learners and their linguistic potential

Member of DfE Commission for AWL

Perspective: SEND
My day job involves providing a range of support for SEND across schools and other organisations. I am really looking forward to sharing my ideas on an inclusive approach to assessment.

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Learning Programme Leader, CLPE

Perspective: Progression in reading & writing
We will share the thinking and research behind the CLPE scales and give delegates an opportunity to reflect on how to use them in school in their current context.

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Education Consultant and creator of Big Writing and Power Writing

Perspective: quality writing
I really looking forward to my workshop. It will be a great opportunity to discuss my ideas on how teachers can become informed, expert and confident in the assessment of writing.

Education author, researcher & HT Langford School
Perspective: formative assessment
We are looking forward to sharing Shirley’s  wealth of high quality ideas, practical strategies, classroom and whole-school examples of her approach to formative assessment.

Head of Profess. Dev, Nelson Tomlinson School

Perspective: enabling teacher agency, literacy
My workshop title is ‘Playing the game without gaming the system in assessment in English.’  We will look at the theory and practice of assessing writing in English, and how you can make the difference to your pupils’ development.

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Headteacher, Sheringham Nursery School and Children’s Centre

Perspective: EYFS
I am looking forward to sharing with delegates a project that’s being developed by the East London Partnership and the STEEP Teaching Schools in London. We are looking at how we can develop our thinking about EYFS assessment, using the existing frameworks. It seems like there is far too much focus on coverage and huge volumes of data and tracking in many EYFS settings, and too little emphasis on children as learners and thinkers.

Director, The Evaluation of the Mathematics Teacher Exchange: China-England,  Sheffield Hallam Uni

Perspective: Shanghai primary maths
I am very keen to share some of the lessons learned from the evaluation, which I have been leading, of the Shanghai primary maths teacher exchange government initiative. In particular, how ‘learning first’ challenges teachers’ mindsets about differentiation.

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Founder of Equitable Education

Perspective: EAL
The title of my workshop is, ‘Positively Plurilingual’. We will explore how we can build on and enhance the linguistic repertoires our EAL pupils bring to school.

West Earlham Infant and Nursery School
Perspective: EYFS
We are looking forward to sharing the approaches to assessment that we use in our Infant and Nursery school. Would love to hear delegates’ ideas too.

Consultant Headteacher, Mead Teaching School

Perspective: research & trialling
My workshop will encourage delegates to embrace AfL to support vocabulary and language development; applying AfL principles to develop oracy, language and vocabulary.

See the article about Kat’s session below.

Uni of Sussex and Incorporated Soc of Musicians & Director, research in education

Perspective: music education
Our workshop will explore some challenges presented by the Arts in the curriculum and consider some practical solutions for meaningfully assessing throughout your work. You will leave with some practical ideas to develop the curriculum, pedagogies and assessment in your own setting which are ethical, in line with “what Ofsted want” and help to inspire learning within and beyond the classroom.

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Freely available materials from the ISM website – teachers just need to add their contact details to get access to the primary and secondary materials. www.ism.org/nationalcurriculum

South Yorkshire Maths Hub

Perspective: maths
I am aiming to help you become more confident in assessing maths and too challenge you to become listening and reflective practitioners, if not ‘classroom researchers’, perhaps through the use of Lesson Study.

NCETM Professional Standard holder

Perspective: maths
Entitled ‘Stopping them trying to guess what’s in your head! Real Assessment in Maths.’ My workshop is an opportunity to explore the power of the ‘neutral face’; getting all children thinking and talking, and the idea of ‘teaching’ becoming listening.

Sheringham Primary School

Perspective: developing AWL systems
We are really looking forward to sharing how we have developed a culture of formative assessment in our school and how our PITA (point in time assessment) system, is based on a set of principles that we have developed  and is not an attempt to recreate levels. It allows us to focus on what children need next in their learning, rather than tell us that they children can’t do yet what they haven’t been taught!

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Headteacher and MD and co-founder of Frog Education

Perspective: implementation of assessment principles
We are passionate about bringing assessment back to where it should be – for teaching and learning. We will be given an honest review of the implementation of the NAHT assessment principles, from a software supplier working with lots of schools and a head teacher who has dared to think differently – and been through an Ofsted inspection during the process.

Teacher, Bader Primary School

Perspective: Visible learning, pupil voice
In my workshop we will be looking at Visible Learning, which requires teachers to see learning through the eyes of the learners, and use assessment as feedback to us. It provides three guiding questions: Where am I going? How am I doing? Where do I go next? Pupil voice is at the heart of this, as Hattie says feedback is most effective when it is from pupil to teacher.

Deputy Headteacher and SLE

Perspective: workload
The title of my workshop is ‘ Assidere: Assessment Agency – Creating Workload Within Limits’  The word assess comes from the Latin assidere, which means to sit beside. Literally then, to assess means to sit beside the learner. In my workshop we will look at ways to seize the AWL agenda! Harness trust and co-agency to build  ‘Workload Within Limits’.

SCITT Director
Perspective: initial teacher education
In my workshop, I am looking forward to  sharing our SCITT’s use of concepts content and contexts to enable disciplined, careful and sensitive assessment so as to empower progress across the primary curriculum.

Diane’s Swift’s session on ‘Supporting Beginning Teachers in Being Assessment Capable’. Diane is Director at Keele and North Staffordshire Primary SCITT. See the article below.

Principal and Director of Ignite TSA

Perspective: principled assessment
I have entitled my workshop, Our journey to the Emerald City of assessment – using technology to find the balance. Perspectives across TSAs and beyond’. We at Ignite and St Bernards, are extremely passionate about getting assessment right for our children and as a result have developed something that I would like to share with delegates.

SCITT

Perspective: initial teacher education
Could you use evidence of your pupils’ progress to demonstrate your own competency and progress?  It’s easier than you might think! Come to my workshop – I would love to share my ideas with you.

Subject Leader for MFL, Langley Grammar Sch

Perspective: MFL
I am going to be sharing a radical new approach to assessment in MFL, which follows the advice of the AWL Commission.  No more “can do” statements. an alternative to common MFL assessment models.

Director of Inclusion and Research

Perspective: cognitive science in education
My workshop title is, ‘Bringing cognitive science to life in the classroom to aid learning.’ We will be exploring the idea that learning is a science and how we can put cognitive science research into practice.

On behalf of Wayne Tennent

Perspective: guided comprehension & dialogic teaching
I am very much looking forward to leading a  workshop based on Wayne Tennent’s research on guided comprehension and dialogic teaching. Looking at how we can develop children’s inference and vocabulary.

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Director of T&L, East London Science School

Perspective: assessment design
Entitled ‘Standing on the shoulders of giants: aspirational assessment.’ In my workshop we will look at what it takes to design a meaningful assessment system from scratch and to build a system which raises the bar of expectation for all.