Sergej Visser
EFL teacher / Speaker
Workshop
Formative Assessment & Feedback in practice
Good feedback propels learning. And Formative Assessment is potentially powerful. But how can you provide effective feedback to 250 students, teaching 24 lessons a week? How can structural formative assessment be organized on a day to day basis? Is it even possible? And does it work?
Well, does it ever! And what is more: once you start working with structured feedback and organized formative assessment, you will realize: now this is education. It’s like venturing out on educational adventures with your pupils.
Then again, it’s not all that simple to install a completely new method of teaching like this. Our EFL teachers have been working on our program for fifteen years. We’ve built our own curriculum, with tests, assignments, activities and background materials. And one thing’s for sure: there’s no turning back. This is it.
This workshop could be the flying start for FA and FB at your school. You’ll be presented with a complete and clear model for formative assessment education, which will give you more insight in the educational process. You’ll learn about a set of practical tools that you can apply to your lessons directly and structurally. You will think about the principles that underpin good FB and FA. You will gain insight in what makes effective feedback. You can take home worked examples of a renewed curriculum. And you’ll hear about the hurdles you’ll have to take. Because FA and FB don’t ease education – but they improve it. And make it more fun.
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Sergej Visser has developed the complete English curriculum for the senior years (with two colleagues) at his Dutch secondary school. It’s a set of activity-based, open-end, 6-to-8-week projects, in which students work together on challenging and inspiring tasks.
Coached by Jan Tishauser (ResearchEd Amsterdam), Sergej is working on a book on formative evaluation and mutual feedback in education.
Apart from that, he has written hundreds of songs and poems for a variety of music projects. As a singer / multi-instrumentalist, he does 20 shows a year.
Sergej works at the Griftland College in Soest, The Netherlands. He lives in Baarn with his wife and six children.
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Amsterdam 2017
Formative Assessment & Feedback in practice
Good feedback propels learning. And Formative Assessment is potentially powerful. But how can you provide effective feedback to 250 students, teaching 24 lessons a week? How can structural formative assessment be organized on a day to day basis? Is it even possible? And does it work?
Well, does it ever! And what is more: once you start working with structured feedback and organized formative assessment, you will realize: now this is education. It’s like venturing out on educational adventures with your pupils.
Then again, it’s not all that simple to install a completely new method of teaching like this. Our EFL teachers have been working on our program for fifteen years. We’ve built our own curriculum, with tests, assignments, activities and background materials. And one thing’s for sure: there’s no turning back. This is it.
This workshop could be the flying start for FA and FB at your school. You’ll be presented with a complete and clear model for formative assessment education, which will give you more insight in the educational process. You’ll learn about a set of practical tools that you can apply to your lessons directly and structurally. You will think about the principles that underpin good FB and FA. You will gain insight in what makes effective feedback. You can take home worked examples of a renewed curriculum. And you’ll hear about the hurdles you’ll have to take. Because FA and FB don’t ease education – but they improve it. And make it more fun.
