Marking Progress - a two-day conference for Local
Authorities
10 & 11 September 2009, St
John's Hotel, Solihull
This was the first time CILT has run a national conference for
all England's LA Advisers. 133 Local Authorities were
represented.
For the focus of this conference, we chose the theme of
Assessment.
Rationale
As the move is made towards primary languages becoming a
statutory part of the curriculum, key issues for us as Advisers
are:
- how do we ensure children are progressing effectively in their
language learning?
- How do we assess the quality of teaching without losing
teachers’ enthusiasm and goodwill?
- What does good look like - what should we as Advisers be
looking for, and what will Ofsted be looking for?
- What can Asset as the assessment scheme for the DCSF Languages
Ladder bring to primary languages, and how does it compare to other
systems such as the Junior European Portfolio, APP, AfL or locally
developed assessment schemes?
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