ACTS Assessment Tools

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• the environment and climate in a classroom where pupils’ are reasoning deeply
• the pupil and teacher behaviours that promote the deep consideration of challenging ideas, in particular how they use language between them to convey, challenge and reason for ideas
• the quality of thinking that pupils are doing

You can see that the tools are colour coded for ease of use. Green coded assessment tools are a good starting point, the orange ones are of moderate difficulty while the brown assessment tools are more challenging. Tool 1 - Open and Closed Tool 2 - Exploratory Talk for Learning Tool 3 - Sustained Shared Thinking Tool 4 - Relational Thinking to Relational Reasoning Tool 5 - Classroom Norms for Dialogic Practice Tool 6 - Accountable Talk Tool 7 - Productive Failure Tool 8 - Bridging Tool 9 - Metacognitive Learning Environments Tool 10 - Co-operative Learning Tool 11 - Solo Taxonomy Tool 12 - Piaget Applied to English Tool 13 - Piaget Applied to Maths and Science     [post_title] => ACTS Assessment Tools [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => acts [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-04-27 07:58:35 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-04-27 06:58:35 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => http://www.letsthink.org.uk/?post_type=resource_folder&p=1285 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => resource_folder [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [queried_object_id] => 1285 [request] => SELECT ltss_posts.* FROM ltss_posts WHERE 1=1 AND ltss_posts.post_name = 'acts' AND ltss_posts.post_type = 'resource_folder' ORDER BY ltss_posts.menu_order ASC, ltss_posts.post_title ASC [posts] => Array ( [0] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 1285 [post_author] => 1 [post_date] => 2020-11-30 11:20:19 [post_date_gmt] => 2020-11-30 11:20:19 [post_content] => The ACTS Assessment Tools have helped teachers recognise the progress made in thinking by their pupils and helped teachers diagnose the thinking that their pupils are using. They are formative in pointing to the support that their pupils need to become more skilful thinkers. There are 13 tools that help teachers know more about

• the environment and climate in a classroom where pupils’ are reasoning deeply
• the pupil and teacher behaviours that promote the deep consideration of challenging ideas, in particular how they use language between them to convey, challenge and reason for ideas
• the quality of thinking that pupils are doing

You can see that the tools are colour coded for ease of use. Green coded assessment tools are a good starting point, the orange ones are of moderate difficulty while the brown assessment tools are more challenging. Tool 1 - Open and Closed Tool 2 - Exploratory Talk for Learning Tool 3 - Sustained Shared Thinking Tool 4 - Relational Thinking to Relational Reasoning Tool 5 - Classroom Norms for Dialogic Practice Tool 6 - Accountable Talk Tool 7 - Productive Failure Tool 8 - Bridging Tool 9 - Metacognitive Learning Environments Tool 10 - Co-operative Learning Tool 11 - Solo Taxonomy Tool 12 - Piaget Applied to English Tool 13 - Piaget Applied to Maths and Science     [post_title] => ACTS Assessment Tools [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => acts [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-04-27 07:58:35 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-04-27 06:58:35 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => http://www.letsthink.org.uk/?post_type=resource_folder&p=1285 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => resource_folder [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) ) [post_count] => 1 [current_post] => -1 [in_the_loop] => [post] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 1285 [post_author] => 1 [post_date] => 2020-11-30 11:20:19 [post_date_gmt] => 2020-11-30 11:20:19 [post_content] => The ACTS Assessment Tools have helped teachers recognise the progress made in thinking by their pupils and helped teachers diagnose the thinking that their pupils are using. They are formative in pointing to the support that their pupils need to become more skilful thinkers. There are 13 tools that help teachers know more about

• the environment and climate in a classroom where pupils’ are reasoning deeply
• the pupil and teacher behaviours that promote the deep consideration of challenging ideas, in particular how they use language between them to convey, challenge and reason for ideas
• the quality of thinking that pupils are doing

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