Make your ‘Marking policy’ a ‘Feedback policy’
Edssential article from @HuntingEnglish : Marking workload getting on top of you? Many schools, and departments, have been reflecting about their marking policies ever since OFSTED declared more than a...
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Edssential article from @kennypieper: For the #blogsync project “A Teaching and Learning strategy intended to elicit the highest levels of student motivation in my subject” I may be opening myself up...
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Edssential article from @mrlockyer : This blogpost is a summary of a workshop I gave at Plymouth University in May 2013 at the Teaching Final Conference. The images are slidegrabs from my deck, and...
View ArticleTesting & Assessment – Have we been doing the right things for the wrong...
Edssential article from @learningspy : Tests are rubbish, right? Like me, you may find yourself baring your teeth at the thought of being drilled to death, or inflicting endless rounds of mind-numbing...
View ArticleWork Scrutiny – What’s the point in marking books
Edssential article from @learningspy : Marking is an act of love Phil Beadle If you’ve never taken part part in a whole school book scrutiny, I’d recommend it. Seeing how students treat their exercise...
View ArticleHow can I mark books without burning out?
Edssential article from @joe__kirby : Imagine you have five classes of thirty students, who you teach three times a week. Marking their books is the bane of every English teacher’s life. To mark every...
View ArticleWhat’s the secret to assessing pupil progress every lesson?
Edssential article from @Kris_Boulton : Use exit tickets to get a snapshot of what every student took away from your lesson This is the single most powerful thing I’ve done all year, from lesson one,...
View ArticleMaking the best use of exam questions
Edssential article from @york_science : I have written before about Diagnostic Questions. A good diagnostic question can reveal a lot about a student’s thinking. Many of the questions we have written...
View ArticleUsing a ‘Taxonomy of Errors’ to Enhance Student Responses
Edssential article from @CanonsOPP : I am writing this post to outline and to describe a technique I learnt some years ago from a long-forgotten colleague that has had a very positive impact on my...
View ArticleHomework Excuse Notes
Edssential article from @miss_mcinerney : One of the problems of my first year in teaching was getting students to do homework. More specifically, I struggled keeping tabs on students who didn’t do the...
View ArticleFabulous Feedback
Edssential article from @hannahtyreman : There are a number of areas of my teaching practice that I’m looking to seriously improve this year and I’ve been writing about each aspect over the last few...
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 ArticleFormative 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 ArticleWhat’s the secret to assessing pupil progress every lesson?
Edssential article from @Kris_Boulton : Use exit tickets to get a snapshot of what every student took away from your lesson This is the single most powerful thing I’ve done all year, from lesson one,...
View ArticleMaking the best use of exam questions
Edssential article from @york_science : I have written before about Diagnostic Questions. A good diagnostic question can reveal a lot about a student’s thinking. Many of the questions we have written...
View ArticleUsing a ‘Taxonomy of Errors’ to Enhance Student Responses
Edssential article from @CanonsOPP : I am writing this post to outline and to describe a technique I learnt some years ago from a long-forgotten colleague that has had a very positive impact on my...
View ArticleHomework Excuse Notes
Edssential article from @miss_mcinerney : One of the problems of my first year in teaching was getting students to do homework. More specifically, I struggled keeping tabs on students who didn’t do the...
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