Guides & resources

This Early Childhood Learning Trajectory looks at children’s progress in executive functions to help you plan the next steps in their learning and development.

This Early Childhood Learning Trajectory looks at children’s progress in social and emotional learning to help teachers and educators plan the next steps in their learning and development.

This Early Childhood Learning Trajectory looks at children’s progress in physical development to help teachers and educators plan the next steps in their learning and development.

This Early Childhood Learning Trajectory looks at children’s progress in mathematical thinking to help teachers and educators plan the next steps in their learning and development.

This Early Childhood Learning Trajectory looks at children’s progress in language and communication to help teachers and educators plan the next steps in their learning and development.

Formative assessment is a teaching practice that evidence says makes a difference. In this video, Darcie Clarke explains how she uses formative assessment in her science lessons.

This rubric outlines a set of capabilities to do with the evidence-based practice of formative assessment.

Kerri Proctor, Head of English at Walford Anglican School for Girls, uses different formative assessment methods to track students' progress.

This checklist is a list of practical steps teachers can take to support the adoption of the evidence-based practice formative assessment in their setting.

This example comes from a Year 7 English class where a formative assessment task was to gather data about students’ writing and interpretive skills.

This guide outlines key practices for using formative assessment in the classroom.