Assessment for learning: putting it all together brings all elements of formative assessment into one practical classroom-oriented series for both primary and secondary teachers. The playlist contains video clips of interviews of teachers and students and classroom footage highlighting all aspects of Assessment for Learning including oral feedback, strategic questioning, self-assessment, peer feedback and annotated examples of written feedback. There...

Assessment for learning: strategic questioning explores the link between questioning and assessment for learning. It contains video clips of interviews with teachers about their use of questioning, and classroom footage showing teachers implementing aspects of strategic questioning. Assessment for learning: strategic questioning focuses on ten key aspects of the formative use of questioning in the classroom: Preparing key questions, Asking closed...

Assessment for learning: peer feedback and student self-assessment explores some of the ways in which teachers can encourage self-assessment by students. As a precursor to self-assessment, it also examines the role that can be played by peer feedback in the classroom. Video clips of interviews with teachers and students examine self-assessment and peer feedback, while classroom footage and a number of tools can be used by teachers in the classroom...

This toolkit is designed to help school districts begin the transition to the Colorado Academic Standards and Colorado English Language Proficiency Standards in the fall of 2011, with full implementation by the 2013-14 school year.