Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers: Assessment by Alys Finch

Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers: Assessment by Alys Finch

The Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers provide accessible, carefully researched, quick-reads for early career teachers, covering the key topics they will encounter during their training year and first two years of teaching. 

This title on Assessment provides a range of practical but critically engaged strategies and approaches to assessment. It offers a brief history of the core ideas and educational philosophy underpinning these, looks at links to planning and reflection, examines the concept of progress over time as a mirror for quality teaching and learning, and explores the idea of pupil self-assessment. Most importantly it recognises that assessment can and should be at the heart of enabling and accelerating the progress of all learners.

Clear, accessible and practical. An unmissable guide to classroom assessment.

Professor Dame Alison Peacock

Clear, accessible and practicalAn unmissable guide to classroom assessment.

Emma Hollis' absolute passion is teacher education. After gaining a First Class degree in Psychology and training as a primary teacher, she became Head of initial teacher education for a SCITT provider in Milton Keynes. She sees teacher education as a continuum and, whilst her heart will always be very close to the initial stages of a teacher’s development, she is also dedicated to ensuring teachers are given access to high quality professional development throughout their careers.  Emma took up the role of Executive Director Designate of NASBTT in April 2017 and has been in the post of Executive Director since September 2017.

Alys Finch is an education consultant, predominantly working with school-based teacher training providers to support excellent training for trainee teachers and their mentors to maximise their impact on pupils. She draws on over 15 years of teaching experience, including leading on curriculum, assessment and training at middle and senior leader levels, in schools, and in a range of local and national initial teacher training contexts.