Assessment with Purpose
Zoom
THIS IS A PAST EVENT
TEACHMEETS ARE OPEN TO SCHOOL DELEGATES ONLY.
Join us for our next TeachMeet, where we’ll be exploring practical strategies and real classroom examples focused on Assessment with Purpose.
Whether you’re looking to make assessment more meaningful, reduce workload, or use feedback to truly drive learning, this session is for you. Join colleagues to explore practical ways to make assessment a tool for progress not just a process.
Join us to:
- Discover new and exciting approaches to assessment
- Exchange resources and ideas
- Support and inspire each other
This is a brilliant opportunity to share what’s working in your setting, pick up fresh ideas, and connect with colleagues from across the region. Get ready for 90 minutes of engaging discussions and practical takeaways!
Apply To Speak: Join in the discussion to help your colleagues and share your work on assessment in the classroom. You don’t have to be a self-proclaimed ‘expert’, just someone passionate about teaching and willing to share your knowledge. Apply to speak here!
Event Overview
Rosanna Hume
Junior Assistant Vice Principal, Castle View Enterprise Academy
Spanish teacher, T&L geek, SLE for MFL. Rosanna is taking her first steps into Senior Leadership this academic year and enjoying the challenges it brings.
Corinne Settle
Content & Engagement Specialist (Teaching and Learning), Education Endowment Foundation
Corinne is Content and Engagement Specialist for Teaching and Learning at EEF and is co-author of the EEF’s Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning guidance report. She has eighteen years of experience in teaching and school leadership, followed by leading teaching and learning programmes at the SSAT before joining EEF.
Katie Elliott
Reception Class Teacher & Assistant Head, Hedworthfield Primary School
Katie is currently the Reception class teacher and Assistant Head at Hedworthfield Primary School in Jarrow. Katie has been a primary teacher for the last 15 years, teaching across EYFS, KS1 and KS2 in Leicestershire and South Tyneside. Her passion is engaging in educational research, particularly the science of learning and helping to make this accessible and actionable for busy classroom teachers. Katie is also passionate about raising aspirations and closing the gap for children experiencing disadvantage.
Sarah Ledger
CEO, Lexonic
Sarah Ledger is a passionate educator, business leader and champion of enabling life progress through literacy.
CEO of UK based Lexonic, Sarah qualified as an English and Drama teacher in 2003, and spent almost 2 decades teaching across KS3 to KS5.
After significant years of school leadership, Sarah decided to leave the chalkface and became CEO of Lexonic in 2022. Since then, she has been the instigator of rapid international business growth with Lexonic, educating teachers and learning facilitators and spreading the company’s mission that ‘nobody should be limited because they can’t read’.
Lexonic is a specialist reading intervention and teacher training company empowering and equipping teachers with intervention programmes and the expertise to explicitly teach reading, fluency and vocabulary comprehension.
How We have Used Evidence Informed Strategies & Programmes to Create a Whole-School Questioning Culture – Rosanna Hume, Junior Assistant Vice Principal, Castle View Enterprise Academy
Rosanna will share tips on how to use a range of questioning techniques as a form of formative assessment to help drive pupils’ learning forward.
Using Pre-assessment & Talk Routines in Primary Maths – Katie Elliott, KS1 Phase Lead, & Maths and Science Lead, Hedworthfield Primary School
Katie will share the work she has developed at her school on pre-assessment and talk routines in primary maths and explore how she has used these approaches as an assessment tool to inform teaching and support pupil understanding.
Check. Adapt. What happens next matters – Corinne Settle, Content & Engagement Specialist (Teaching and Learning), Educaion Endowment Foundation
Checking gives us insight; acting on it moves learning forward. This session focuses on how teachers can use what pupils show to guide their next steps in the moment supported by the Education Endowment Foundation’s Check. Adapt resource.
