Planning for assessment
This section is structured around the planning, teaching and assessing of a module, lesson or sequence of work with your class or group of pupils.
The teaching and learning should have a clear global dimension or be about international or sustainable development issues. Ideally, the module or scheme of work for your age group should be based on an idea that has arisen from your class or group.
The planning could be carried out in conjunction with an interested colleague, perhaps one involved with personal, social and health education (PSHE) or citizenship teaching. You should choose how best to plan and implement in your own situation.
The activity on the right will lead you through a process to develop an assessment model and will engage pupils in the planning and evaluation process in order that they take some responsibility for their own learning and assessment. The process uses teaching and learning about a topical global issue as its content focus and the situation in Iraq is used here as an exemplar.
Note that to complete the activities in this unit, other topical or global issues can easily be substituted depending on the interests of your class. Reference is made to citizenship and PSHE aspects of the curriculum, but the ideas can easily be adapted to different curricula and subject areas.
Having decided on your topic, the first task is to think about establishing the pupils' existing knowledge about the issue. In order to assess whether or not outcomes have been achieved, you and the pupils should find out what they know and can do at the start of the work.
Now complete the activity opposite, which will enable you to review several strategies and try one out.
Activity Resources:
- Images
- Interactive
- Sound
- Text
- Video
Activity
You could engage the pupils in draw, reflect and write activities, discussions, quizzes, brainstorming or a diary entry. With reference to the Iraq situation as a topic you could ask the pupils to choose one of the following activities to carry out in class. Bear in mind that there may be pupils who have family connected with events in Iraq and there will be sensitivities, which makes it even more important that you establish what pupils' knowledge and attitudes are before you launch into the topic.
Images
Pupils should draw a collection of their images of Iraq, with words as well if they wish. Alternatively, give pupils an outline map of Iraq and ask them to write and draw their thoughts and images on it. These can then be the basis of discussion, questions and planning for further work.
Questioning a photograph
Choose a news photograph, stick it in the middle of a large sheet of paper, and ask pupils in groups of two or three to write statements and questions around it. Discuss and use these for planning work.
Brainstorming
Brainstorm with the whole class what they know about the latest situation in Iraq. Keep the list.
Tableaux
In groups, pupils plan and perform a still tableau (pupils take up still positions to show a moment in time like a pause on a film) to show an aspect of life in Iraq. The rest of the class describe what they think is happening.
