Pupil progress or understanding?

Pupil progress or understanding is a concept that myself and many other trainees seem to struggle with!

These pieces of work have been photocopied from a high achievers science book.

I think that the KWL grid is a good method of showing pupil progress as the children can document what they already know, whether its right or wrong. Then the children are given the opportunity to reflect on their learning after the input and document this in the L section. This sheet can be completed at the start of a topic.

Similarly, the yellow post it note evidences the child's idea about how sound is made before the input of a lesson. The pink post it note demonstrates what the child has learnt after the input in relation to the learning objective. Overall I believe that these pedagogic strategies evidence pupil progress as it highlights the children's prior knowledge and then what they had learnt. See the example below on the left...

Above on the right, I believe this evidences pupils' understanding.

I asked the children to complete this test/quiz in order to gather what they know and what needs to be retaught. My first attempt at making this resources was unsuccessful, I asked questions that required a child use a low skill set for example 'true or false' questions therefore I added more complex questions that used different skills, i.e 'comprehension' questions.

However, I was nervous with marking children's books and after reflecting I noticed that this effect my feed-forward comments. On the whole my marking could of been better- I believe that I should of asked more challenging questions or set another activity in order to evidence that the pupil has mastered the learning objective. As a result this will become my target for professional practice phase 1B.

I will aim to guide pupils to reflect on the progress they have made and their emerging needs and encourage pupils to take a responsible and conscientious attitude to their own work and study. This works towards achieving teachers' standards 2 C and D.

After speaking to another trainee on my course I found another way to evidence progress-

I considered this a really effective method of recording pupil progress as the 'assessor' gave each child a box to record the children's responses to questions and methods they have used to answer questions. This can be written in note form and instantly during the lesson. This is advantageous as it is a quick, easy and it allows for a different method other than the standard 'test'.

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