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class work 001

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I have started a gallery of classwork on Flickr. I ‘ll put up a selection of pupil work, ranging from drafts to fair copies which can be annotated to highlight useful comments. This fits with the aim of formative assessment, which is to use feedback effectively to encourage further learning. By showing examples of good practice, this can also help provide pupils with models they can adopt.

My thanks to Judi Hedding, who formerly worked in international banking, and who now writes a very informative blog about Phoenxi. I contacted her, pretty much out of the blue, having found her site while searching for resources on Arizona for my S2 class. Judi has responded several times to the comments my pupils have been leaving, sometimes to add, or to correct things they have said. Have a look at the S2 page to see what I mean. This seems the ideal use of blogging for teaching and learning, where we can begin to draw on local knowledge to enhance pupils’ awareness of ideas, and to help provide feedback fairly rapidly.