In-house Professional Development
Improving Student Achievement: a Practical Guide to Assessment for Learning is a new publication from Curriculum Corporation. It is ideal for use as the basis of a series of staff professional development workshops. Teachers could be asked to individually read through a chapter a fortnight, reflect on the Professional learning focus at the chapter’s end and perhaps try out some of the strategies suggested in the chapter. Then, as a staff or within groups, they could come together and share their thoughts and practice with one another. It would provide a great opportunity for engaging collaboration and it is hard to imagine any outcome other than ones that would be beneficial to teaching practice and student learning.
Whether or not this book is used for staff professional development, it is recommended as a highly useful teacher resource.
