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DYLAN WILIAM EVENTS Embedding Formative Assessment Workshops

Professor Dylan Wiliam has been teaching and researching in education for over 30 years. Dylan is the co-author of Inside the Black Box and presented the BBC’s Classroom Experiment (September 2010). Dylan is well known for inspirational workshops that help schools improve Assessment for Learning (AfL) practice in classrooms – see Dylan’s website www.dylanwiliam.org Dylan is running two further full-day [...]

Pre-school’s ‘protection’ lasts into teen years

TES article – The effects of early education are still felt at 14, research shows. EPPSE 3-14  – Influences on students’ attainment and progress in Key Stage 3: Academic outcomes in English, maths and science in Year 9.

Sir Michael rings the changes

TES article – Outstanding schools fear inspection once more as new chief stamps his mark on Ofsted.

Annual Report of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales 2010-2011

Estyn – Annual Report of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education 2010-11, an overall assessment of standards and performance of schools, education and training providers in Wales. TES article – Welsh literacy levels still ‘shocking’.

Ofsted challenged to prove its ‘integrity’

TES article – “Ofsted do not know good teaching when they see it,” a government adviser and expert on teacher quality has claimed. Professor Dylan Wiliam of London University’s Institute of Education is challenging the watchdog to show some “integrity” by subjecting its school inspections to an evaluation of their reliability and publishing the findings.