Teacher: Brigitte Holt

The video clip shows Brigitte working with a Year 10 GCSE Spanish course familiarising them for the first time with the assessment criteria for the oral examination. In the preceding lessons, use of different tenses had been focused upon and the students had produced a PowerPoint presentation about this which they had presented to their peers. The purpose of this exercise was to raise awareness of the importance of including a range of tenses in their work in order to attain the highest grades.

As a homework task, the students had then worked in groups to produce a video and written script based in a leisure context taking care to include a range of tenses in their work. These were then shared with the class in the lesson. All of the class had access to the assessment criteria, scripts and video extracts produced by every group. The groups then assessed their own work and the work of their peers using the Edexcel GCSE assessment criteria and discussed together how the criteria had been met. The teacher then collected the opinions of each group on the board.

By making the criteria transparent to the students from the outset, they are clear what they needed to do to achieve their full potential. This class is a top set and it is important to note that less able students would need a more detailed explanation with examples of good language for each category. As a homework task, the students had to improve the scripts.

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