Successfully keeping your school in touch with the latest digital teaching and learning methods can be a daunting task. Let’s make it that little bit easier for you.
Why download?
Successfully keeping your school in touch with the latest digital teaching and learning methods can be a daunting task. That’s why our teaching and learning team at Nurture has created this guide based on our experience training hundreds of teachers on how to use our formative assessment and feedback software.
This guide has been summarised into seven elements:
- Vision for Continuous Assessment
- Subject Department Collaboration
- What’s Good Feedback (Cut-out)
- Feedback Engagement
- Digital Transformation
- Lasting Change — Early Adopters
- Lasting Change — Expansion Phase
Included in the guide
- Try this sections, where we suggest actions you can take today.
- Cut-outs for the staff room: see our ‘Features of Good Feedback’ page to get a cut-out you can stick up in your office or staff room.
- Checklists for school leaders and teachers to assist them with digital transformation.
Save time and deliver higher-quality feedback. Help your students fulfil their potential. Helping schools make the shift from summative to formative.
What it helps you achieve
Students
- Increased student outcomes
- Improved learning and behaviour
- Transferable skills across subject areas and curriculum
- Increase in level of self-direction
Teachers and leaders
- Improved reflection
- Bird’s-eye view of student progress
- Continuous professional development
- Recognition on completion of Nurture onboarding and training
- Increased motivation and retention
Schools
- A common research-backed framework for learning and leadership
- Development of a holistic teaching and learning model
- Improved knowledge transfer and best-practice sharing
- Clearly defined vision for formative assessment and feedback
Why trust this guide
Underpinned by research. The guide is built on the research framework we created with Learnovate, Trinity College Dublin.
Written by experts. Written by Dr Stephen Comiskey, Nurture’s Director of Teaching and Learning and an expert in digitising formative assessment and feedback.
Practical guides. Any guides published by Nurture will always have practical tips and actionable insights. Usually you’ll find either a ‘Try This’ section, a useful cut-out or a checklist for success.
Evidence based. You’ll always find links to academic articles that support the content in Nurture eBooks and guides. If you have questions, we’ll put you in touch with our teaching and learning team who write the guides.
“The huge selling point about Nurture, apart from the fact that it is pedagogically sound, is it sits in the Teams environment.”
— Sir Mark Grundy, CEO, Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust
We hope you find the guide useful — don’t hesitate to request a demo if you would like to speak to the team.
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