Dear Master Trainer,

You are invited to attend training on Formative Assessment Principles and Practices.
The training aims to help you to…
 Understand your role as Master Trainers  Discuss possible challenges during the cascade
 Understand the training content (i.e. formative and consider solutions
assessment principles and practices)  Understand how to give effective feedback to
 Recognise the link between formative teachers (following formative assessment
assessment and the CEFR-aligned curriculum principles)
 Plan for and practise delivering parts of the  Reflect and discuss plans for the cascade.
training content
You will be placed in a group that matches your expertise (Primary or Secondary education). After your
training, you will go out and train teachers on how to apply formative assessment in their classes and make
their classrooms learning-centred environments.
You will be learning a lot about formative assessment and how to apply it in English language lessons. You
will find a lot of information in the attached Teacher Handbook document. The Teacher Handbook is your
pre-training reading. Please ensure that you familiarise yourself with its content as it will make it easier for
you to understand the content of the training.
Below is the training timetable and session titles. The Ministry will confirm with you whether you will be
attending the week beginning 5th or 12th March 2018.
Monday to Thursday
Session 1 09.00 – 10.30 am (90 min)

Break 10.30 – 11.00 am (30 min)

Session 2 11.00 – 12.30 pm (90 min)

Lunch 12.30 – 02.00 pm (90 min)

Session 3 02.00 – 03.15 pm (75 min)

Break 03.15 – 03.45 pm (30 min)

Session 4 03.45 – 05.00 pm (75 min)

Session 5* 05.00 – 05.30 pm (30 min)

*Session 5 is held on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday only.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

What is formative Overview of CEFR-aligned Reviewing and developing Micro-training
assessment and how does curriculum documentation formative assessment Feedback and recall main
it improve teaching and and ‘can do’ orientation techniques in receptive and principles of formative
learning? productive skills assessment (1)

The use of activities that Planning objective focused Reviewing and developing Micro-training
provide evidence for lessons and identifying formative assessment Feedback and recall main
formative assessment (1) success criteria (1) techniques to support principles of formative
independent learning assessment (2)

The use of activities that Integrating formative What is effective feedback? A Micro-training
provide evidence for assessment into teaching model for giving feedback Feedback and recall main
formative assessment (2) and learning with the new principles of formative
CEFR-aligned curriculum assessment (3)

Collecting and analysing Planning objective focused Using differentiation effectively Reflection and action
evidence; introduction on lessons and identifying in planning activities planning
giving feedback success criteria (2)

Day 1 reflection Day 2 reflection Day 3 reflection No session

We hope you will find the training useful and enjoyable. We look forward to meeting you!