Asessment for Learning

Assessment for Learning (AfL) and not "of learning" is a practice that can revolutionise your teaching methodology.

This book starts with a research the author carried out when teacher and teacher trainer (AST) at Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham London, on questioning.

It then presents five  INSET lectures (with slides) Bulla gave on the matter:

•Assessment for Learning - Theory to Classroom Practice
•Assessment for Learning - Questioning
•Assessment for Learning - Peer Assessment
•Assessment for Learning and Metacognition
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Assessment for Learning for the Inclusion Team

This revised edition adds a final section with practical games and activities to play in class.

From the conclusion:

Your main resource are your students.' Of course, I didn't fully understand it then; and for a few years, I kept writing up worksheets and cutting down half of the rainforest for little educational value apart from my pupils learning all the secrets of aerodynamics – pity I was teaching English then! After a few years, and only when I rediscovered the great potential of Assessment for Learning, the penny, or rather paper plane, finally dropped: AfL turns education onto its head; the pupils become the (co)leaders in the classroom; paper can stay in the photocopier, and finally, we can have a balanced and responsible relationship between learners and teachers!