Reading - Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation
Reading - Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation
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Central to the Language Strategy is the importance of understanding the impact of what we do on learner progress.
We need to understand current abilities in order to successfully develop these abilities across the continuum 3-16.
We advocate a 'photo album' rather than 'snapshot' approach to assessment of standards and progress.
Alongside is a way of summarising and reporting learner skills relative to the formerly age-related Literacy Framework. If you use it, simply delete out the year groups not relevant to the learners you are considering.
With all monitoring we recommend:
mapping out all monitoring and feedback/planning sessions across the year in advance and publishing expectations to all involved.
ensuring that actions agreed at previous monitoring are revisited, reflected upon and informed decisions are made whether to persevere or pivot from a previously agreed way forward, before any new actions are considered.
discussing findings and co-constructing a way forward with all staff very soon after the monitoring in scheduled planning meetings.
Monitoring Standards in Reading example.docxThis is a template to support a Guskey-style evaluation of professional learning (PL). We also find it useful to include as part of the planning stage of any PL to ensure we keep the clear purpose if improving learner outcomes central to planning but mindful that each level must be addressed well if improved learner outcomes are to be achieved as a result of the PL.
Guskey evaluation - template August 2023.docxAs your approaches to language development evolve, you might find the template below helpful to ensure what you are intending to put into practice is meaningful and manageable. It can be used as an individual or in teams; you could switch to the future tense to support planning.
At times, we might need to let go of some successful strategies in order to make way for even more effective strategies.
At all times, when we are considering adopting a new strategy we have to decide what we are going to stop doing in order to have the time and energy needed to adopt new behaviours/ techniques.
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