Instructional Playbook for Australian Primary Schools

📚 Overview

Essential Assessment supports Australian educators to move confidently towards a paper-based and blended assessment model without losing the powerful curriculum-aligned data that informs responsive teaching.

✅ It provides:

• Practical processes for using Essential Assessment to support purposeful technology use.
• A clear, step-by-step format teachers can revisit at any time.
• Support for you to maintain complete assessment and instruction cycle, online and paper-based.

🧑‍🏫 Teaching Tips

• ✍️ Print it out and keep it on your desk as a quick reference when you’re planning for a specific assessment purpose.
• 🧩 Bring it to a team or stage meeting and use it to align on the assessment approach your school is using.
• 🔍 Revisit it once a term to check which steps you’ve tried and which might help with a current challenge, like Daily Review or data analysis.