Teachers ‘should have to pass assessment test’ to qualify
Every teacher should be given a test on how to assess pupils before being awarded qualified teacher status, according to a new report from the think-tank LKMCO.
A majority of teachers claim they did not learn how to assess pupils during their initial teacher training and many suffer a lack of confidence in the areas, according to a report released today in conjunction with Pearson.
Only a third of the 1,000 teachers surveyed felt “very confident” about assessment, and 20 per cent said they wouldn’t know where to look for information about it if they needed it.
Will Millard, the senior associate at LKMCo who authored the report, said the fact so many teachers lack confidence is “deeply worrying” as assessment is such a critical part of the job, but, as a former teacher, he “fully sympathised” with the predicament.
He wants the Department for Education to build a central assessment bank giving teachers free access to high-quality assessments and for better access to face-to-face and online training via assessment organisations and universities.
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