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Let's face it we don't teach like that. We teach more like this-described by the British Council.

Picture a small room, partitioned with blackboards. These cubicles are your classrooms. Your school is in the Caribbean.

Five primary school head teachers from the London borough of Islington recently went on a study tour to Tobago and this is what they saw. 

With no walls to divide the space and different lessons taking place at the same time, these classrooms are noisy and it can be difficult to concentrate.  But this is normal and the children there are used to it.



Source of Picture

In the Caribbean, we teach whole class and we like to teach homogenous groups-We can break free, however-Consider some examples for changing the way your organize your teaching and your physical classroom-

Use the examples and the models as a guide.

The Formative Assessment Cycle

Sure, you are accustomed to daily lessons. However, to implement the formative assessment cycle, you can focus on teaching chunks in which your emphasis is on some big idea

Check out the Formative Assessment Cycle

Readings

Research and Formativ Assessment from the US NCTM

Popham on Formative Assessment in ASCD

Classroom Assessment: Minute by Minute, Day by Day--Explains the Black & Wiliam Model-A must Read on the ASCD Site

AFL-Material for Science Lesson Web Site