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The YesAssess Blog: The Globalised Challenge

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Wednesday, 2 December 2009. In his contribution to ' The Globalised Challenge, SSAT conference Nov. 2009'. This is to be lauded. However, it is a statement that needs to be addressed by how we go about assessment. Our education system will not be able to fully equip our young people with a broad set of personal learning and thinking skills until the assessment of these skills is fully developed and realised in all our schools. The assessment needs to be able to reflect a student's individual progress and...

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The YesAssess Blog: January 2010

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Sunday, 10 January 2010. Master Learner Learning Journey. How does a student understand how to become successful at school? How do they make sense of how to be good at learning? In his book ' Mastery. 160; Prof. Carol Dweck. 160;describes the huge gains that can be had when we see that our intelligence, our character, and our skills, are not fixed but can develop. How students' approach set backs, failure, and success makes a large difference to their levels of achievement. Links to this post. Subscribe ...

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The YesAssess Blog: February 2010

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Sunday, 21 February 2010. Schools are Churning out the Unemployable. Whether you wish to take our default PLTS assessment or formulate a skills set of your own, you can be sure that you will be helping students gain and grow the skills they will need as workers, learners and thinkers in the future. . Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A track record in handling pupil and staff opinions, having collated over 5 million school survey responses;. Experience of working inside the DCSF.

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The YesAssess Blog: August 2009

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Monday, 17 August 2009. Big Endian or Little Endian? How do you like your boiled egg, hard or soft? And where do you break your boiled eggs,. The big end or the little end? 160;Who is or was hard and who soft at your school? A principal dancer at the Royal Ballet might be shocked to learn that he has chosen a soft option for his study and career. Michael Gove says that, ". Cambridge, the LSE and others have warned prospective students that taking "softer" A-levels such as media studies. Bryn Terfal could...

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The YesAssess Blog: How to Assess Personal Learning and Thinking Skills

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Friday, 30 October 2009. How to Assess Personal Learning and Thinking Skills. The QCDA leave the answer to the question about how to assess PLTS open, yet at the same time schools are being inspected by Ofsted and told that they are not doing it successfully. In its report, '. Planning for Change; the impact of the new key stage 3 curriculum,. At the chalk face itself teachers can make a difference, the report states that, . The report goes on to state that, ". How to assess PLTS. View my complete profile.

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The YesAssess Blog: Master Learner Learning Journey

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Sunday, 10 January 2010. Master Learner Learning Journey. How does a student understand how to become successful at school? How do they make sense of how to be good at learning? In his book ' Mastery. 160; Prof. Carol Dweck. 160;describes the huge gains that can be had when we see that our intelligence, our character, and our skills, are not fixed but can develop. How students' approach set backs, failure, and success makes a large difference to their levels of achievement. Master Learner Learning Journey.

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The YesAssess Blog: October 2009

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Friday, 30 October 2009. How to Assess Personal Learning and Thinking Skills. The QCDA leave the answer to the question about how to assess PLTS open, yet at the same time schools are being inspected by Ofsted and told that they are not doing it successfully. In its report, '. Planning for Change; the impact of the new key stage 3 curriculum,. At the chalk face itself teachers can make a difference, the report states that, . The report goes on to state that, ". Links to this post. How to assess PLTS.

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The YesAssess Blog: September 2011

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Tuesday, 27 September 2011. Many people are asking what will happen to PLTS in the curriculum review? With the CBI . Extolling the virtue of Creative skills, . Demanding that schools should develop children's character. 160;and research concluding that the importance of Teamwork and social learning in the workplace. Is increasing, this is not the time to cut our young people adrift from the very skills that they need, beyond their exams, to succeed in the 21st century. But, are PLTS the way forward?

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The YesAssess Blog: New Year Resolutions

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Friday, 1 January 2010. If you are the one of many people who have made a new year resolution, then good luck. The problem, it seems, is that most resolutions are doomed to failure. The way to succeed, according to. A psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire is that: ". So why mention this here? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A track record in handling pupil and staff opinions, having collated over 5 million school survey responses;. Experience of working inside the DCSF. How to assess PLTS.