They include ideas on collecting information, the strategic use of questioning, giving feedback, and introducing peer and self-assessment.

Collecting information

Ask learners to publish one sentence to summarise what they find out about the subject at the start or end of a lesson. You could focus this by telling them to add e.g. what or why or how etc.

At the final end of a lesson learners share with their partner:

• Three things that are new have learnt
• Whatever they found easy
• What they found difficult
• Something they would like to learn as time goes on.

Give learners red, yellow and cards that are greenor they can make these themselves in the home). At different points throughout the lesson, question them to choose a card and put it on the desk to show just how much they understand (red = don’t understand, yellow = partly understand, green = totally understand).

Use post-it notes to evaluate learning. Give to groups, pairs or individuals and get them to answer questions. For example:

• What have I learnt?
• What have i discovered easy?
• What have i came across difficult?
• What do i do want to know now?

When a learner has finished a exercise or worksheet, ask them to attract a square in the page. If they don’t understand well, they colour it red, if they partly understand, yellow of course everything is OK, green.

At the final end of a task or lesson or unit, ask learners to write one or two points which are not clear to them. The teacher and class discuss these true points and work together to ensure they are clear. Continue reading →