This week we will be looking how we can evaluate the learning that happens in our classrooms.  We will investigate how we can use assessment to formatively monitor pupil learning and see a range of  poor proxies for learning and how to avoid these through promoting "hard thinking".

We will examine the role of questioning in our computer science lessons and how it can be utilised in a number of ways to assess prior knowledge and check for understanding.

This week we will look at the quality of instruction and examine how using a range of techniques we can encourage learners to think about their thinking and how they learn in computer science.

We will use the topic areas of  Data Representation (Images and Sound) to demonstrate the importance of being intentional to guide student practice, ask questions and allow students to develop their skills and deepen understanding.

In this session we look at assessment and the purpose of assessment.

We will focus primarily on assessment for learning in computer science and how a number of strategies including how formative assessment and meaningful feedback can move learners forward. 

There will be some time spent looking at a range of tech tools which can support teachers to address misconceptions and reshape learning for our students appropriately.

We will also look at how live marking, especially when teaching programming and problem solving, can help students make progress more quickly. 

This session will look at quality of Instruction, sequencing, timing, spaced retrieval and interleaving to build high quality schemas to aid retention and build new knowledge.  We will also reflect on some of our previous sessions but  provide a wide range of examples from KS5.

Today we pull together many different aspects of our learning to look at sequences of learning.

We will look at how we can create intentional progression through increasing cognitive demand and build knowledge and skills over time.

This session will focus on how you can produce resources and collect evidence for your enquiry question.

You will need to elicit evidence of learning as you go through a series of computer science lessons.  You should ensure that you can clearly demonstrate, the purpose of your tasks and activities, evidence collection and analysis in order to answer your question AND meet individual pupil needs.

Demonstrating learning over time is key to this area of focus.