Three Wishes for an AFL Plenary - I just need one!

Having been observed a lot recently... there a very few letters that cause me dread as much as AFL! How can three little letters instill such fear into teachers?

The main problem for me is that nobody is very clear about what OFSTED actually want and will accept as effective and productive AFL in lessons. But for me, no matter what level the class actually is, I love to have www.wallwisher.com on my IWB during the lesson. This is a free website that lets you create an interactive wall on  the IWB which students can electronically stick post it notes on during the lesson to show what they have learnt.

My students love it. It actually encourages them to complete their work faster so that they can nip up to my desk at the front of the classroom to use my computer and post their thoughts...

What makes this online website even better for me is that once the students have all contributed I can click on a button and it automatically generates HTML code. I can then copy and paste this code and embed it into the classes area of the History VLE. It then acts as an obvious AFL tool, a revision tool and it allows the students to show off to their parents when they get home what they have been doing in school. Zing, zing, zing... www.wallwisher.com may only grant one wish but it makes three tasks so much easier. 


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