Chilli Queen
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assessment for learningMy school is having a big push on AFL. We're following some sort of DVD based course presented by Dylan William and as part of this we have to do peer observations as we try out different AFL techniques. The trouble is the DVDs are primarily aimed at secondary schools and we have had very little input on the sorts of AFL techniques which work in primary schools, particularly at FS and KS1.
I know about things like talk partners, thumbs up/down, no hands up etc but I was just wondering whether anyone had any other good ideas for AFL techniques to use with ks1.
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stevarnam
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We use something called tickle me pink in literacy. This is where a child highlights their best letter, word or sentence in pink highlighter and then tells everyone why they thought it was good! They quite like it and it's dead easy to manage! We also put a happy/sad/striaght face after a piece of work to self assess, and swap books in lessons with friedns so they peer assess! We also have a blub tree thingy with lots of characters on and the children say which character they felt like today and why. I think if you google blub tree it will come up with an image!
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magpie nic
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I used little fans- smiley, sad and straight face, that the children showed to say if they had found it easy, hard, not sure, or understood, nearly there and not at all. Mini plenaries during lessons to find out whether they are progressing as much as they can. Clear LO and SC, sometimes generated by the children. I'll keep thinking
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smileylady
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I use 'so now what?' the children assess how well they think they have done in the lesson but then either write what they need more help with or feel ready to try next or sometimes just what they would like to know now!
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ccbaa1
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Can't find anything on Blub tree when I google anyone else found it?
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thehawk
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we use traffic lights - children each piece of work by putting in a red, yellow or green dot.
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Rainbow_Bright
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I used traffic lights last year but now I have a red, yellow and green tray and the children decide where they are going to put their work at the end of each session. Works really well (think the idea came from either here or TES) and we have the same system across the school so all are familiar with it.
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Chilli Queen
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Some great ideas - thanks 
When you use the traffic lights / coloured trays do you ask the children to think about how well they have done measured against a set of success criteria or just how easy / hard they found the task?
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Rainbow_Bright
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Usually against the success criteria for the task involved for lit and num. For other things, it's sometimes a bit more along the lines of hard/easy.
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magpie nic
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Think stevearnam meant blob tree?
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ccbaa1
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Thanks MN!!
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jog_on
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I love the tickle me pink idea - thank you 
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bluerose
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Think pictorial scriteria are useful lower down and if dont get LO and SC right its hard for children to do all the other stuff as what are they measuring themselves against.
Good use of talk partners and thinking time, asking lots of people rather than just one and random rather than just those with hands up is important
Shirley clarke books are well worth a look and simple and easy to understand
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gorgeous51
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We use something calld 'Little Red Man'. We have ppts (pm me if you want copy - it is at school though) and the red man is up in our class near the IWB. We say "Our red man has been watching us today - what has he seen us learning? What did he SEE us DO? What did he HEAR us DO? What did you find easy? What did you find tricky? What do we need to get better at?" We do this after every session and the children then give thumbs up, down, in the middle to show how well they think they have done. They are all very keen on it and it certainly encourages them to think about what they have learnt.
YR/Y1 by the way.
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tired teacher
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We got the kids to put Y M or H next to learning objective- meaning
Yes ,
I get it Mostly
or Help
I couldn't face children having to search for three different colours. We use the same code back when we mark. Even the foundation children are quickly able to do this.
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redredrobin
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There's some great ideas here. Love the little red man!
Are you just looking at self-assessment or all AfL?
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Chilli Queen
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It's all AFL really and how we use our day to day assessments to inform planning or how we use spontaneous assessments during lessons to impact on teaching and learning.
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bluerose
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Gorgeous i love the red man idea why did you choose a red man in particular is it significant.
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bluerose
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Just thinking a competition for a design for a learning detective logo to have at front of room would be good to use like little red man
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stevarnam
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here is the tree...its actually called a jelly baby tree!
Click to download file
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Chilli Queen
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Thanks Steve. Do you use that with key stage 1, key stage 2 or both?
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gorgeous51
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Don't know why a little red man particularly - our AST for Teaching and Learning introduced it and we now use it across the school. No idea where she got it from - everyone likes it though.
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magpie nic
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WE had a student who drew an outline of a man, then split it into sections and wrote the lesson objectives for the whole topic on eg all teh science ones, then each work the class decided which colour to colour the section with that week's objective in, either green for all understood, orange for mostly understood and red for not at all. Was a good overview of where the gaps were at the end of the topic.
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Chilli Queen
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Did each child have their own copy or was it one for the whole class?
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thehawk
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I think whole class in earlier years, moving to groups and finally individual as they progress through the school and become more mature/ more independent / more skilled at it.
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stevarnam
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We use the jelly tree with FS and KS1 as we are just an infant school. It does work well for AfL but does get a little tiring after a while!
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magpie nic
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The man was done as a whole class but it would have worked for groups as well. She used it in Y2 so they were quite independent.
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