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EMC CPD Face-to-Face: Assessment – Principles & Practices

Availability
Places available
Price
£245 per place
Location
EMC, SE1 8QW
Duration
10-3.30pm

This course draws on EMC’s in-depth assessment project work. We’ll look beyond generic approaches to assessment as applied to all subject areas to explore instead the specific principles and practices that underpin effective assessment for English. We will focus closely on how to embed responsive summative and formative assessment into your teaching, so that they work for all attainment levels across different aspects of reading, writing and speaking & listening at Key Stages 3 and 4. Given how prescriptive and constraining some school systems currently are, we will offer principles to aspire to, but also suggestions for how to make small but telling adaptations to school systems in current use. There will be a chance to share assessment approaches with other teachers. 

NB: This is a repeat course.
  • Designing and implementing meaningful summative assessment tasks
  • Developing effective formative assessment tasks
  • Integrating assessment tasks with your curriculum

EMC, 44 Webber Street, London, SE1 8QW

How to get to the English and Media Centre

National Rail:

Waterloo and Waterloo East are within 10 minutes walk

Underground:

Southwark on the Jubilee Line

Waterloo on the Jubilee, Bakerloo, Waterloo & City and Northern Lines

Buses:

The following bus routes go close to Webber Street: 1, 139, 168, 171, 172, 344

 
Photo of Andrew McCallum

Andrew McCallum

Andrew McCallum is Director of the English and Media Centre. Prior to that he ran a PGCE course in secondary English, and previously he taught for 15 years in London schools, spending most of that time at Acland Burghley School in Camden. He holds a doctorate in education, is author of Creativity and Learning in Secondary English (Routledge) and writes regularly for NATE's Teaching English magazine. If asked to name the EMC publication he's most proud of having worked on, it would be a three-way contest between Iridescent Adolescent, Diverse Shorts and Write On.
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Rosie Hunt

Rosie lectures on the PGCE English programme at the University of Bristol. She has worked as an English teacher and head of department in several school in London and Bristol. She is currently working towards her doctoral degree at UCL’s Institute of Education. Her research interests include the role of literature in education, dialogic practice and qualitative research methods.
  • Bookings for this course will close at 8am (London, UK) on xxxx or when capacity is reached, whichever is the sooner. 
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Cancellations and amendments

  • We require at least five working days’ notice of cancellation, otherwise your school will be invoiced for the full amount. However, if you are not able to attend and a colleague would like to take your place, this can be arranged at any time. (Please email [email protected] with the name and email address of the teacher.)
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  • If a course does have to be cancelled you will not be charged for the course and will receive a refund if you paid in advance. However, personal arrangements including travel, accommodation or hospitality relating to the course which have been arranged by you or your institution are at your own risk and not refundable by us. You may wish to wait until you hear that the course has reached viable numbers before booking these.
  • Our face-to-face courses are very interactive and cannot be live-streamed.