EMC CPD Online: Assessment – Principles & Practices
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Availability -
Places available
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Price - £195 per place
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Location - Online
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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 in breakout rooms.
- An overview of recent assessment research and practices in secondary English
- Designing and implementing meaningful summative assessment tasks
- Developing effective formative assessment tasks
- Integrating assessment tasks with your curriculum.
NB: This is a repeat course.
Online, via Zoom. Details of how to join will be sent before the session.
- Course materials will be sent out in advance. Please either print these out or have them available on screen during the session.
- After the session you will receive the PowerPoint presentation and any resources used on the course.
- This course will run with limited numbers.
- On these longer EMC online courses, we try to make good use of Zoom's interactive features, such as breakout rooms and live Q&A. This requires people to unmute their microphones and, preferably, to turn on their camera. If you would like to take part but will not be able to unmute your microphone, please email Kate ([email protected]) to discuss whether the course is suitable for you.
- As participants may be audible and visible, this course will not be recorded.
- Please note: courses are designed to be watched by one participant only.
I was so impressed with the expertise of the facilitators and the content of the course. It gave me a superb opportunity to reflect on our departmental assessment practices. Thank you again for a super course! Claire Wenn, Loughborough Amherst School, Spring 2024
The whole experience was very thought provoking and inspiring. It gave me a chance to reflect on best practice and best of all, plenty of practical strategies to take away and implement straight away! Helen Pascoe-Williams, Princethorpe College, Spring 2024
Lucy Hinchliffe
Lucy Hinchliffe is EMC’s Research & Projects Lead consultant. Her work is focused on exploring how English is taught in schools and how EMC can best support this through publications and CPD. She also specialises in KS3 and KS4 courses at the Centre, and has contributed to several publications, including the EMC Teaching novels pack for The Bone Sparrow, and EMC KS3 Poetry Plus. Lucy was an English teacher, KS3 Coordinator and whole school CPD leader in an outer London school prior to joining EMC full time.
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.
- Bookings for this course close at 8am (London, UK) on Friday 4th July 2025 or when capacity is reached, whichever is the sooner.
- This course must be booked online.
- To book this course you must be signed into one of the following accounts (registering an account first if you need to):
- UK Trust/Academy – Head Office (purchasing)
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- UK Teacher – Home Address Only
- UK Private Individual
- Overseas
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- Click 'Book now’ (right-hand column).
- Add the number of places you need.
- Fill in the names and email addresses of the people attending. To secure your place, please make sure you add the attendee details immediately and checkout within 24 minutes. Otherwise the booking will expire and you will have to begin the process again. The joining information and post-course email will be emailed to both the person booking the course and the attendee.
- Click submit and then Go to basket.
- Checkout.
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- Once you have booked your place, you will see a screen indicating your order has been successful. You may want to make a note of your order number.
- The attendee will also receive an email asking them to complete a short pre-course survey.
- The email with all the information needed to join the session will be sent to the attendee on Monday 7th July 2025. A reminder will be sent on the day of the course. Attendee not received their joining email? Ask the attendee to check their junk or promotions folder. Still no luck? Email us.
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.)
- 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 relating to the course which have been arranged by you or your institution are at your own risk and not refundable by us.