Welcome to AGS How well do you know your AFs? – can you complete the card sort?

1. Welcome to AGS How well do you know your AFs? – can you complete the card sort?

2. What do you hope to get out of today?

3. The Day • 9:00 – 9:30 Register & Activity 1 (AF Card sort) • 9:30 – 10:30 Why APP? Getting familiar with the AFs • 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee • 11:00 – 12:00 Standardisation of assessment • 12:00 – 12:45 Lunch • 12.45 – 14:00 Developing opportunities for assessment (lucky dip activity) • 14:00 – 15:00 Feedback, recording the evidence

4. What type of teacher are you?

5. Does • every child knows how they are doing, and understands what they need to do to improve and how to get there. Do they get the support they need to be motivated, independent learners on an ambitious trajectory of improvement;

6. Is • every teacher is equipped to make well-founded judgements about pupils’ attainment? • Do they understand the concepts and principles of progression, and knows how to use their assessment judgements to forward plan, particularly for pupils who are not fulfilling their potential?

7. Does • every parent and carer knows how their child is doing, what they need to do to improve, and how they can support the child and their teachers?

8. Assessment for learning

9. Getting to know the AFs

10. LET’S BREAK THIS DOWN A LITTLE 10

11. Ice breaker Introduce yourself and your role. Complete the task in the envelope – you have 15 minutes

12. Recognise and apply scientific models Identify the assumptions and limitations within scientific models Know that there are scientific questions that cannot currently be answered Understand how the scientific community validate scientific claims through the process of peer review AF1: Thinking Scientifically

13. AF2: Understanding the Applications and Implications of Science Know how science and the work of scientists pervade all aspects of our lives Explore how scientific and technological developments take place (and have taken place in the past) Appreciate the impact of scientific and technological developments on society, and how aspects of society (economics, politics, religious views, ethics and morals) influence the direction and progress of scientific and technological development

14. AF3: Communicating and Collaborating in Science Know how to communicate results using scientific conventions such as symbols, tables, graphs etc Be able to distinguish between opinion and evidence Recognise bias and misrepresentation in the communication of scientific evidence Understand the importance of collaboration between scientists in the development of scientific ideas

15. AF4: Using Investigative Approaches Use standard investigativeskills Know the language of variables and fair testing Understand the need for appropriate range and intervals between data points Be able to assess risk

16. AF5: Working Critically with Evidence Identify patterns and draw conclusions from scientific results Base conclusions on manipulations made to scientific data Evaluate the strength of scientific evidence Identify ways of improving experimental methods in order to improve data quality

17. The Three APP Challenges Understanding the new APP criteria Assessing the new APP criteria Teaching the new APP criteria Potentially the most challenging APP obstacle?

18. A P P

19. APP: The concepts were there all along… Extract from the KS3 National Curriculum 2007

20. The value of APP? • This is an exciting time in science – free from the factual constraints of SATs and the need to shoe horn pupils through exams – are we now free to engage and enthuse pupils about the process of science and the nature of scientific discovery?

21. Is it important that we develop pupil’s understanding of how science works within our world – and the role of science and scientists within society? New GCSE Science curriculum has greater focu on the ‘How Science Works’ principles.

22. Did you know • Touch screen technology will ‘run out’ by 2020

23. Or will it ….?

24. Statutory or not? • QCA and DCFS (December 2009) stated that APP (like AfL) is non-statutory …. • “OFSTED have refused to sign a statement saying that APP was voluntary” • “The Governments ‘experts group’ on assessment said that the Government should continue to promote the use of APP in all primary and secondary schools” TES December 4th 2009

25. Key questions? • How do we develop the assessment of pupils? • How do we enhance learning and • How do we improve the rate of pupil progression?

26. A I P P

27. Your task Examine and describe a malteser in as much detail as possible. You have 2 minutes

29. Coffee and discussions

30. Standardisation…. What does level 5 look like?

31. Tip – use this for marking pupils work 31

32. What is out there?

33. Feedback and discussion

34. Which AF relates to models? What exactly is a model?

35. Scientific Models Scientific Models: A scientific way of representing how or why things happen. • Examples: • States of matter • The cell as a building block for life • Electricity is charge flowing along a wire

36. Animations View diffusion animation

37. Lucky Dip What AF could you assess using this work? Trial the pupil speak cards – what do you think?

38. Feedback and discussion

39. Marking and recording the work

40. Pupils can use self / peer assessment and identify Improvement Targets to take their work to a higher level Final APP teacher assessment Self or peer assessment Specify targets for improvement

41. How can the Badger assessed tasks be recorded?

42. The Individual performance by a pupil can be recorded on the APP level grids, with pupil performance within an AF determined from the day to day assessments e.g. using assessed tasks.

43. Recording the marks How can we make this manageable?

44. How often should we use APP? Finely level all work in a pupil’s exercise book and then use that to inform APP?

45. Periodic Assessment DCFS recommend that the APP process takes place at least termly intervals. Pupil performance across the five AFs is examined using collated work and records of achievement. Individual performance within each AF is established. An overall performance measure is then established across the five AFs, assessed at low, secure and medium.

46. Having an impact What will your colleagues’ attitudes be to implementing APP in school? They’ll be really positive! It will be an uphill struggle Probably OK. Something else

47. B. What time challenges will you face? There’s no time at staff meetings I can see me having to do it all myself Fitting it into the curriculum will be hard Something else

48. C. Which actions will be most effective for you to have impact? Presentation(s) at staff meeting Implementing a coaching programme Letting staff observe you Something else.

49. D. Who else will be key to you having a successful impact? Science subject leader SLT member Teaching assistants Someone else.

50. E. What is your vision of how things will be different after APP? I am really clear on how it will be I just need to think about it a bit more It’s still a bit vague I’m not convinced it will be different