Student teachers need explicit sessions on assessment but the principles also need to be embedded within the practices of the course itself and identified and applied in the school context. Planning for assessment can be modelled for student teachers in a number of ways during the ITE course including:
at the beginning of the course, tutors can write detailed session outlines, share these with the students and discuss the extent to which the success criteria have been met
at the end of each week, collect in learning logs which can help tutors to gain insight into student teachers' learning and indicate the direction of future planning. Tutors can then make explicit in subsequent teaching where they have altered their planning to address student teachers' needs
designating slots during the course to put on sessions where student teachers express the need for more input. In this way tutors indicate that simply covering a curriculum is insufficient and that long term planning has to include opportunities to revisit issues and ideas
in subject specific assignments student teachers can be asked to show evidence of how they have used assessment in the planning for, and adjustment of, a scheme of work
