Description: An AfL document that allows teachers to monitor a pupil progress over the duration of a lesson, topic or term. Objective: Allows you to monitor a whole class. You can make a comparison between students utilising the diamond ranking system. This could be put on the back of a lesson plan, or put on the board. Assessment: I use the circles to put the initials of students in, or if I am monitoring boys’ behaviour or effort in relation to girls, colours can also be useful. Expectations: This can be used for continuing assessment of a multitude of things.

Description: A simple spreadsheet that allows teachers and students to monitor their progress over the course of a project. Using a simple two section layout teachers and pupils can see their progress relative to other pupils. Students can easily fill the cell in once they have completed a specific task green, amber to state that it is started and red if they have not started at all. A teacher only document is still being developed. Prior Knowledge: Students need a brief introduction to the interface and how to change the cell colour.

Based upon the popular game of Taboo included in this resource are 12 cards of common everyday products. Students work in pairs or could be completed as a starter to guess the product. The focus should be on describing what it looks like, its use of materials, its sustainability, recyclability etc. The words on each card cannot be used by the student describing the product. This is meant to promote discussion and support other tasks, any comments and suggestions would be welcome.

An excel file which collates all of the attainment 8 estimate tables from 2015 to 2017 shadow measures released by the DfE 30 March 2017. Included in the file are the unvalidated and validated versions of 2016 estimates presented alongside the new 2017 shadow measures as a line chart. Differences between the estimates have also been calculated and presented alongside each other for quick comparison. This file saves time, preventing the need for you to collate and tabulate the information yourself.

Based on the popular game 'Guess Who' this card game can be played in small groups. From two packs of cards one student picks a product whilst the group of students with their pack of cards try to identify it. This is achieved by asking questions about the products sustainability, function, use of material, design, aesthetics etc. This is should promote discussion and encourages students to make links between topics.

Three focused tasks which encourage students to research an important aspect of sustainability. The task requirements are presented under C and A grade criteria allowing tasks to be easily differentiated. These activities could be part of collaborative work and used for summative or formative assessment to determine progress/attainment. I hope to add a number of further tasks to this series, any ideas would be welcome.

Description: Formal way of sharing assessment with the pupils. Not to be used on its own, but in conjunction with other assessment strategies that are already in place. Objective: It should allow teachers to share with the pupil the marks for effort, their portfolio and product, whilst also communicating a target for further improvement. Expectations: Share assessment strategies with the pupils and promote their participation in Assessment for Learning. Hints: Use it in conjunction with other assessment, mark their folio as a whole or as separate tasks. The mark they achieve at the end is an overall grade, similar to what they would be given for GCSE coursework. This allows pupils to identify each task as having relative and equal importance.

This document can be used to track the progress and/or acquisition of new knowledge/skills over a period time. This could be to track a student, group or whole class over a lesson, week, topic or term to visually present what progress has been made. Use initials, names, colour, pupil codes etc. The example illustrates one way in which the 'map' can be used.

A ready to use resource that allows pupils and teachers to monitor the speed of pupil's reading. This can be printed driectly to card, cut out and used immediately. Pupils complete the diary routinely with the date and page number. A range of colours have been developed so reading groups can be easily identified for intervntion/differentiation purposes. Further reading resoucres will soon be available, reviews and ideas are welcome to support the design process.

A simple chart layout which can be used to plot pupils from a class against each other using two criteria; effort and attainment/progress. This allows the practitioner to record a pupils effort and a chosen second criteria as a scatter graph. A series of these could be used over time to identify changes in effort levels, alternatively a chart could be used for an individual pupil recording dates instead of their initials.

A photocopiable one-point perspective grid which can be enlarged/reduced if needed. Students could draw directly onto the grid or this could be used as an underlay so that they can draw without the limitations of the grid.

A three-part Pupil Premium (PP) case study template, fully editable in MS Word. This allows schools to quickly profile the interventions being implemented to support disadvantaged pupils. It has been designed for secondary schools but can be easily contextualised for all stages of education. Each stage has been presented separately on the document but page breaks could be easily removed if you wanted to consoldiate the document. The structure and content has been base upon good practice across public education and in-line with Ofsted expectations. Please use this to profile successful intervention and those less-successful interventions where the school has had less effect due to factors outside of their control.

A simple word document that has six 'exit cards' per page. Teachers can type, copy and paste a question to ask all students to complete as a plenary/mini-plenary to consolidate learning and assess their knowledge and understanding of a term, concept etc. Alternatively this could be used for pupil feedback, self-assessment etc. for the lesson or a learning resource. This simple sheet provides a simple, yet effective method of communication between the teacher and pupil.

Used as part of a department's formative assessment strategy this worksheet allows teachers or peers to identify up to six words that a student has misspelled. (Any more and multiples sheets can be used.) The 'marker' writes the words in the space provided before issuing to the pupil, who then copy out the correct spelling five times. The sheet can then be stuck into an exercise book to evidence teacher assessment, student progress etc. Printing the sheets onto a coloured paper i.e. green for assessment. This makes them more impactful.

A PDF poster that can be enlarged easily using Acrobat Reader. The poster uses a simple colour scheme and diagrams to illustrate where to hold the pencil and the angle required to reproduce a range of tones using a single pencil. This is for quick reference or could be used as a handout whilst focusing on technique. The diagrams are illustrative and try to focus pupils on technique rather than outcome. This poster represents the first of a range of posters I wish to make available on TES in the coming weeks/months.

A set of three leadership proformas which have been designed to record; action planning system analysis CPD or coaching program record keeping Each can be used efficiently, requiring minutes to complete during or prior to line management meetings. They prevent significant setup time and can be quickly edited without the need for formatting.

Two simple documents that can be printed from the PDF files and photocopied so that they can be combined to a single, double-sided WS. It uses several simple tasks that can be used to reinforce the understanding of levers and their everyday application.

An easy to follow worksheet that is presented as a simple flowchart. The sheet has been designed to place underneath a student's design sheet on their non-writing side. Two versions are included with both right-handed and left-handed students catered for. The task is divided into three sections; good and bad features, design specification and moral, social, environmental and cultural issues. This provides a prompt that these should be discussed through annotation and does not provide a detailed overview of what these are. These sheet can be easily printed and laminated to be used across a range of ages and even act as a starting point for AS and A2.

Two worksheets included in this download; steel and its properties and types of metals. Both files are PDFs which will make them to scale up/down and print from either Mac or PC. The worksheets could be used as a starter, plenary, recap or revision exercise. There is no supporting PPT or additional notes provided with the worksheets. However, these have been used extensively and work well in the classroom.

This is a word file document which has been designed to reflect the current product design/resistant materials existing AQA GCSE exam paper. A series of metal focused questions have been written for KS3 pupils including; H&S, aesthetics, metalworking tools and brazing. However, if you are looking to write your own paper this will also act as a template. It is fully editable with a cover that includes the same information as the GCSE equivalent. This will make it much easier and quicker to author a paper that resembles the GCSE paper. Please note that the layout and style of the template reflect AQA and is most suitable to those working with the exam board. This resource does not use any information from any GCSE questions published by AQA.