Formative use of Summative Tests: Marking #Blogsync
Edssential article from @headguruteacher : Ever since the idea of formative assessment was expressed by Dylan Wiliam and Paul Black in ‘Inside the Black Box’, one of the practical strategies suggested...
View ArticleMarking bookmarks – Ways to boost marking within schools
Edssential article from @Simon_Warburton : This post summarises my journey so far in creating a higher degree of consistency in the marking of students work. It is a process that has gained pace...
View Article‘Should I be marking every piece of work?’
Edssential article from @MaryMyatt : This was a question put to me as I worked with a group of teachers this week. My answer was ‘No’. ‘But we are expected to mark everything in our school, so can you...
View ArticleHow I cope with marking
Edssential article from @ChocoTzar : Marking kills teachers. I don’t know anyone that looks at a massive pile of books and thinks way-hey! However, right from the start of my career, when I was a very...
View ArticleMarking is an act of love
Edssential article from @learningspy : Have you ever flicked back through an exercise book and seen the same repeated comments followed with soul numbing certainty by the same repeated mistakes? There...
View ArticleMarking for England or Marking for Effect: a feedback journey.
Edssential article from @andrewwarnerkms: Some years ago the school I worked in had no real accountability measures or explicit expectations about how teachers marked their books. Consequently, many...
View ArticleIt’s a Myth-tery: 7 ways in which Ofsted are better than SLTs
Edssential article from @kevbartle: This is a summary of my presentation to Teaching and Learning Takeover (TLT14) this October. The organisers asked me to base my presentation on my most-read blogpost...
View ArticleMarking madness – does it make learning any better?
Edssential article from @Heatherleatt: Marking seems to have become a really hot potato in recent months. Teachers have always had to mark their pupils’ work, of course, and with that there has always...
View Article10 Silver Arrows: Ideas to penetrate the armour of ingrained practice
Edssential article from @headguruteacher : Silver Arrows? It’s very hard to change your practice. We’re all so busy, very often it is difficult to create space to fully explore a set of ideas and to...
View ArticleTeacher workload: Can it be sustained?
Edssential article from @GoldFishBowlMM : Like many teachers, I filled in the DfE workload survey. I tried thinking about the external demands that increase teacher workloads but I quickly realised...
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