Video library
Developing success criteria _ movement and dance
A year 6 class are exploring mood and character in paintings.
Fundamentals of assessment for learning
Paul Black talks about the fundamental features of assessment for learning, building pupils' understanding of the pur...
Negotiating Success Criteria
Paul Black talks about the importance of negotiating success criteria with pupils, making outcomes achievable but at ...
Understanding the big picture
In order for pupils' day to day learning to be meaningful, they need to understand how it fits into the bigger picture.
Teachers rethinking their roles
Paul Black speaks about the challenges for teachers inherent in assessment for learning that requires a rethinking th...
Nurturing pupils' engagement with learning
The engagement with learning shown by babies and young children is often not evident in school.
Assessment for learning with lower attainers
Paul Black talks about the particular impact that assessment for learning can have for lower attainers, as well as ab...
Characteristics of the AfL classroom
Classrooms where assessment for learning has been implemented can appear and sound very different from conventional c...
The school context for promoting AfL
Time for discussion within school and for teachers to observe each other's practice are essential elements of continu...
Formative feedback versus marks and grades
Paul Black talks about the importance of feedback to pupils that supports their learning and the negative impact that...
Introducing AfL in secondary schools
Paul Black talks about the issues for teachers and for pupils where assessment for learning is being introduced in so...
Teachers reactions to assessment for learning
Paul Black talks about how assessment for learning touches the core of teachers' work because it relates to the funda...
Assessment for Learning in secondary schools
Paul Black presents the case for assessment for learning in secondary schools.
The hot and cold game
In this primary school, a range of activities are used to make learning a modern foreign language enjoyable and fun.
MfL in the primary curriculum
A primary teacher with modern foreign languages responsibility talks about introducing French to primary pupils and h...
Talking about the animals
A year 5 class are working on naming animals in French and linking this with previous work on colours.
Pass the parcel
As part of a French lesson talking about animals, the children work in groups playing pass the parcel, using their kn...
Conversations about animals
Building on whole class and group work earlier in the lesson, the children use the French to which they have been int...
Supporting in French
A class teacher, who supports French being taught to her class, talks about her role and experiences, and the impact ...
Incorporating French into the school day
A class teacher talks about how French is incorporated into the wider curriculum and the advantages that children who...
Naming the colours - German
Children use an activity, in which they step on coloured cards in sequence, to revise the names of colours in German.
Find the object
Year 6 pupils in a German class are involved in a team game to find objects as they are named by the teacher.
Recapping French Vocabulary
The teacher leads a lively start to a French lesson with a year 3 class, recapping some vocabulary with the class.