Teacher Resource
Free Assessment Quote Posters
Five printable posters that put big thinking on assessment into a few sharp words, ready for your staffroom or classroom walls.
📚 Overview
This set of five A3 posters takes some of the sharpest thinking on assessment, from Dylan Wiliam to Carol Ann Tomlinson, and turns it into something you can put on a wall. Each one makes the same point a different way: assessment isn’t the finish line, it’s the thing that tells you what to do next.
🎯 Perfect for the staffroom, your office, or anywhere you want a quiet reminder of why the data matters.
✅ This poster set provides:
- Five quotes on the purpose of assessment, from Dylan Wiliam, Carol Ann Tomlinson, John Cowan, Lucy Calkins and Rajen Jani
- Bold, colourful A3 designs ready to print and display
- A shared language for staff meetings, planning days and moderation conversations
- A reminder that good assessment points forward, not just back
🧑🏫 Ways to use these posters
- 💬 Pin one up before a staff meeting and open with it. Ask the room what it looks like in their own classrooms this week.
- 🗂️ Use them to frame a moderation or PLC session, so the conversation starts with “what do we do next” rather than just the scores.
- 🌱 Hand a poster to a graduate or new teacher as a starting point for their own thinking on assessment.
- 🔄 Rotate through the set across the term so the message stays fresh instead of fading into the wall.