NEW BLOG ALERT! Curriculum and Assessment Design: A Balancing Act How can we ensure assessment truly reflects what we value? Alice Whitby, Teacher Development Lead, Oasis Community Learning, explores how shifting pedagogy from exam-focused teaching to learner-centred approaches enables teachers to align their methods—and assessment practices—with their school's mission, fostering genuine understanding of holistic learner development and progress. Read the blog here: https://lnkd.in/ees3-u4p
Have we lost our way? I’m actually not anti-exam, I think a ‘sorting exercise’ at the end of formal education to let everybody know (kids included) what you’re great at, what you enjoy and what you’re still working on is…fine. Useful even. I just don’t think that the best way to do this is always a linear exam. And I think it is morally reprehensible that we mandate failure to 35% of our 16 year olds every August. As a result of this, in recent years, amongst the ‘knowledge only’ rhetoric and the league tables we’ve become preoccupied with ‘passing the exam.’ This has swamped decision making in schools and made our curriculum incoherent by design. I think rather than part of the ecosystem for education, we’ve become polluted by exams. And we’ve lost our way. So I wrote this for Rethinking Assessment. 💭 Let me know what you think! https://lnkd.in/eETGdfzQ