People Bingo

Method

Each space on the grid contains a statement.

Walk around the room to nd a person for which a statement is true. Eg. Someone whose name
starts with the same letter as you.

Get them to print their name in the appropriate space only one repeat.

Once you have a full card call out Bingo

Ticket out the door.

2-4-8-whole group

The Black Box studies Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam from Kings College, London, began a series of
important studies in the 1990s. Their famous paper, Inside the Black Box, was published in 1998 and
became the first in an important research series. This activity helps you explore the focus of that
research: how assessment interacts with learning. Black, P., & Wiliam, D. (1998). Inside the Black Box:
Raising standards through classroom assessment. Phi Delta Kappan, 80 (2), 139-148.

What you need: This page and one Discussion Starter for each pair of teachers a highlighter pen
per pair of teachers. This activity uses the 2-4-8-whole group strategy.

Step 1: (10 minutes) READ and HIGHLIGHT your Discussion Starter. ANNOTATE it and PREPARE
how you will teach the key ideas to another pair. What implications does it have for you?

Step 2: (10 minutes) FORM 4s from 2 pairs, who have read different Discussion Starters. Each
pair TEACH the other about the key ideas in their research. Each group of 4 then PLAN how they will
teach another group of 4 about the key ideas in their two Discussion Starters.

Step 3: (10 minutes) FORM 8s, who have read different Discussion Starters. Each group of 4
LEADS a discussion on the key ideas in their two Discussion Starters. As a group of 8, DISCUSS: What
implications does all of this research have for us, here?

Step 4: Further research is available in Activity 1.4B, the Professional Reading and/or the references
and websites on the Module 1 Resources web page.

SWOT analysis strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats

Professional Learning: Student self-assessment

Gantt chart

TASK Week Week Week Week Week Week

1 2 3 4 5 6
(Date) (Date) (Date) (Date) (Date) (Date)
1. Decide on research
topic
2. Draw up a list of
possible resources
 3. Assign group roles and
begin research

4. Continue research

5. Develop and
6. rehearse presentation

7. Make presentation

Professional Learning: Student self-assessment

Sample reflective questions

Sample reflective questions

What have you learned?

What did you find easy about learning to ?

 How would you do things differently next time?

What did you find difficult while you were learning to ?

What helped you when something got tricky ?

How would you change this activity for another group/class who were learning to ?

Sample reflective prompts

Preferences

The most interesting thing about _____________________was

I prefer to work by myself on activities that

I like working with others when

Learning style and strategies

If I can, I try to avoid activities that

I find it easiest to understand when

When I don't understand something, I

Strengths

I'm getting much better at

One good question I asked (or thought of) today was

One of the things I do best is

Areas in need of improvement

I'm still not sure how to

I need to get help with

The part I found the most difficult was

One technique has been to put the students into small groups and give each student a small part of
the unit to explain to their colleagues. They are given a few minutes preparation time, a few hints and
use of their exercise books. Then each student explains their chosen subject to the rest of their group.
Students are quick to point out such things as, I thought that the examples you chose were very good
as they were not ones in our books. I dont think I would have thought of those. Or, I expected you
to mention particles more when you were explaining the difference between liquids and gases. These
sessions have proven invaluable, not only to me, in being able to discover the level of understanding
of some students, but to the students too.

Black, Paul, et al. Assessment for Learning : Putting It into Practice, McGraw-Hill Education, 2007.
ProQuest Ebook Central, p. 109 .