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Tag: marking strategies
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What happens when you ask learners to tell you what to mark?
Usually, it falls to us to decide what to mark. And, invariably, we decide to mark most things, if not all. While we might not give equal weight to all…
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Technological breakthroughs make verbal marking a new frontier you can use to support the learners you teach
Developments in technology mean we can now capture verbal marking of written work. For example, learners submit their work electronically, you read through it, and you then record yourself marking…
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How can you use marking codes to simplify marking for yourself and for your learners?
You can use a set of marking codes to communicate information swiftly and precisely to learners. Instead of writing a series of comments around their work, or underlining and circling…
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Speed up your marking while helping learners develop a better understanding of their work
When we highlight learner work the eye is immediately drawn to the different colours on the page. This can help learners to better understand what feedback you are giving or…
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Create a strengths chart and instantly cut hours off your marking workload
Instead of spending time thinking about the strengths demonstrated by a piece of learner work, create a chart containing a wide range of strengths appropriate to the subject or subjects…
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Spend twenty minutes doing this and you’ll have a tool that will speed up your written feedback for the entire year, and beyond
When we judge a piece of work we do so through a set of expert lenses. These lenses comprise the different categories we associate with the subject in question. For…
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How can you unlock the secrets of the checklist to power up the impact of your feedback?
You can use feedback checklists to train learners to more accurately assess, improve, and refine their own work. They are a tool you can teach learners to use and which,…
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How a simple sheet of A4 paper can completely change how learners think about implementing the targets you give them
Take an A4 sheet of paper and divide it into three columns. At the top of the first column write ‘Date’. At the top of the second write ‘Target’. And…
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How to use whole-class feedback lists to save time, make your life easier, yet still give meaningful feedback to every learner you teach
Whole-class feedback lists can save you a lot of time while also providing personalised feedback to all the learners in your class. Having marked a set of books, instead of…
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Why planning for implementation is almost guaranteed to increase the impact of your written feedback in any lesson, with any class
Learners need time in which to implement their targets. Without this the targets may disappear into the ether, never to be used in the way you intended. While some conscientious…