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)/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 will be to think about establishing the pupils' existing knowledge about the issue. In order to assess whether 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:
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Activity
- Go to the 'Sustainable Cities' section of the 'Development Education Project' website. Development Education Project
- Click on 'Evaluation'
- Look for the heading 'Evaluation Tools' Beneath this heading you will find a number of baseline assessment tools, which you can click on, for example 'Concept Maps'.
- Select one or two which are suitable for your school context, and evaluate their success.
