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Explores a new and very successful assessment system developed after the removal of levels, grounded in the starting principles of great assessment in primary schools.
List of contents
Part One: Exploring Assessment
Assessment: Where we are now (and how we got here)
Principles of Great Assessment
Part Two: The Impact and Opportunity of Life After Levels
The Impact and Opportunity of Life after Levels for School Practitioners
The Impact and Opportunity of Life after Levels for Pupils
The Impact and Opportunity of Life after Levels for Parents
Part Three: Performance and Accountability
The Accountability Question
Accountability and Teacher Performance
Part Four: Assessment Toolkit
Ideas and Strategies for Primary Assessment
Getting evidence from the children in the classroom
Making the most of WALTs and SC
Promoting pupil self-assessment in lessons to guide their next steps
Quality questioning and discussion
Feedback
Practical tips for using Learning Ladders
Conclusions: Taking Control of Assessment
About the author
As a headteacher Sam Hunter is committed to providing the best possible education to the children in her care. After nearly 20 years working in education, she is currently the head at Hiltingbury Junior School, a thriving learning community in Hampshire, which fosters forward-thinking and outward-looking practice.
In 2014 the school was recognised by the Department for Education through the assessment innovation fund. Since then Sam has been sharing her approach to assessment, while regularly speaking at national conferences and hosting visits to her school. This allows colleagues from across the UK and abroad to experience how Learning Ladders works in the classroom.
Sam believes in the power that quality assessment creates for transforming teaching and learning. Life After Levels is her first book and her aim is to ensure that schools feel confident in creating their own ethos of assessment, which has pupils’ learning at its centre rather than a fear of accountability. She believes that pupils’ understanding of their role in learning underpins successful assessment.
Sam is passionate about school-to-school support and is also a guest contributor to TES.
Summary
Explores a new and very successful assessment system developed after the removal of levels, grounded in the starting principles of great assessment in primary schools.
