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Steyning Grammar School A day and boarding school www.sgs.uk.net The Black Box inside The Black Box Using technology to accelerate and improve assessment for learning Sachin Choithramani Learning Leader for Digital Technologies
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Steyning Grammar SchoolA day and boarding school
www.sgs.uk.net
The Black Box inside
The Black BoxUsing technology to accelerate
and improve assessment for learning
Sachin ChoithramaniLearning Leader for Digital Technologies
Nick WerganHead Teacher
Learning should be at the core of everything we do.
Including Technology.
ProfessorDylan Wiliam
Assessment for Learning
Students learn because teaching activitiesengage studentsIn a feedback loop
ACTION & ADJUSTMENT
ASSESSMENT
FEEDBACK & ANALYSIS
DEVELOPMENT
THE LEARNING FEEDBACK LOOP
The Black BoxInsideThe Black Box
The aim was to:
1. increase the speed of feedback loops
2. improve the efficiency of feedback loops
3. secure student engagement
4. reimagine the types of learning activity that were possible
BUT….
5. without increasing teacher workload!
Our environment
1. Windows desktops
2. Bring Your Own Device
3. Staff iPads
4. Faculty Chromebooks
Here are some of the things
we did...
Health & Social Care→ Portfolios to Docs & Classroom
Organisation
Core PE→Question tool in Classroom for starters, hinge point questions, plenaries and exit tickets.
Micro Assess AllSpeed
Analysis
Core PE→ Extension Activities
Action and Adjustment
Spanish→ Comment Tool → Electronic feedback
Organisation
English→ back channels and green pen
EvidencingAction & Adjustment
In Maths→ blended approach. Upload Photos → Classroom → Electronic feedback
Topics
OrganisationEvidencing
Computing→ coordination of shared classes
Workload Reduction
In Food & Nutrition we were able to integrate electronic textbook materials into Google Classroom making resources available to students at home.
WorkloadReduction
Drama→workshop learning summary
Student Ownership of Feedback & AnalysisTeacher WorkloadReduction
Drama→ Extended projects → students set lesson objectives and review outcomes
AccelerationStudent
Ownership of Feedback Loop
Business Studies & DramaInternal exams scanned → Students self mark.
Reduction in Teacher Workload
Student Ownership of Feedback Loop
Then we began to
REIMAGINElearning activities to do the
previously impossible.
Computing→ bespoke revision websites
Personalisation of Development ActivitiesStudent Ownership
English → traffic lighting own response → peer experts
Improved access to feedback & analysis Student Ownership
Drama→ YouTube video → electronic annotation
Student EngagementAccessibility of
FeedbackEnables Self-Assessment
Engineering→ customised project tracking sheets
Continuous feedback and back channels
Art→ video feedback
Student Engagement
Workload ReductionQuality & Quantity
of Feedback
Photography & Maths→flipped learning videos
Quality of Development
Activity
Drama, English & History→ Draftback Videos and Revision Histories
Student accountability to engage
To improve the student feedback loop you
have to improve the teacher feedback loop.
ACTION & ADJUSTMENT
ASSESSMENT
FEEDBACK & ANALYSIS
DEVELOPMENT
THE LEARNING FEEDBACK LOOP
If you want to improve learning you have to
personaliseTeachers’ Professional
Development
Blog of ideas →share innovations across faculties.
Personalised Development
Faculty Google Classroom →●try out ideas●share resources●reuse posts
Reduce Teacher WorkloadImproved Development
Activities
Improved Staff Digital Literacy
= Improved
Communication
Requests for absence→Online
IT Room Bookings→Google Sheet
Year 7 Team → Tutor Time Messages→ Daily notices
Staff Appraisal, Faculty Development Plans andFaculty Evaluations→Google Classroom
Subject Options→ Google Form
Internal Orders → Google Drive & Sheets
Parents’ Evening Bookings →Google Classroom
If you reduce teacher workload you increase the time available for high quality teaching
and learning.
If you reduce school costs using technology you
you increase the resources available for teaching and learning.
Including the technology.
Used intelligently, technology enables us to:
1. increase the speed of feedback loops
2. improve the efficiency of feedback loops
3. secure student engagement
4. reimagine the types of learning activity that were possible
AND… 5. reduce teacher workload
AND… 6. Improve teacher professional development
The most important thing:●Ensure the implementation of technology is driven
by your pedagogical aims.
If you do nothing else:●Share this video with your colleagues. You will find
at least one idea you can try out tomorrow. https://goo.gl/KghjgM
Sachin Choithramani, Learning Leader for Digital TechnologiesSteyning Grammar School
www.sgs.uk.net [email protected] @sgs_digital
For more information contactSachin Choithramani, Steyning Grammar School
Learning Leader for Digital [email protected] @sgs_digital
