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Tag: marking
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Creating the Environment for Progress – Part 3
This blog is Part 3 of 4. You can access the other parts here: Effective Marking Part 2 was, necessarily, reflective in nature. Norms and values, while important, involve us…
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Simplify your marking in a matter of minutes. 150 exemplar targets, covering ten essential areas of learning, ready for you to start using today.
Targets are central to feedback. Through targets, we help learners direct their future effort. Targets give learners access to expertise, helping them to do things differently, and better. Here are…
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How can marking for target implementation change the game when it comes to maximising the impact of your feedback?
We set learners targets with the expectation that they will try to implement these. If they do, so our thinking goes, then their work will improve, and they will make…
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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…