Formative assessment, developmental stages and starting the year well
The goal of formative assessment should always be to find out what each student NEEDS next, rather than focusing
Please work through each section of this page prior to our course. You can do it in sections and submit each quiz whenever suits you. The quizzes are required for your certificate. You need to bring your completed Stage Test C (section 5 below) with you to the course.
Before starting the next section, please download and read the Stage testing for Stage A and B and advice for grouping students. You will need to be familiar with the questions and what to look for on our live day
Please download and complete the Stage C test to bring to our training day. It is ok to get things wrong – that will help you to understand where kids struggle.
Once you have completed it, check your answers with the answer sheet. Annotate your test with a different colour to show any answers that you changed, rather than redoing it with the correct answers.
The goal of formative assessment should always be to find out what each student NEEDS next, rather than focusing
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