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Curiosity and Powerful Learning- Formative assessment

 Whole School Goal: When we commit to assessment for learning our students understand where they are in their learning, where they need to go next and how best to get there.  When the feedback we provide is based on this evidence, it supports our students to develop independence as learners, directs and focuses their learning.   CPL stands for Curiosity and Powerful Learning  Includes  Teacher Theories of Action  and  School Theories of Action.  - The school is obviously focusing on the committing to formative assessment, so as a default I too am focusing on this in a new curriculum. I have my eyes on using the co-operative strategies and also the Higher-order questions. But as it is best to do one thing well than 3 things terribly, I am trying to focus harder on the formative assessment .  Other school-wide ideals that come from CPL include:  -using the identified group work strategies to ensure students are learning from one another....