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Tag: simplify your marking
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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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When should you mark learners’ work, and when should you not?
Time is at a premium for any teacher. You must spend your time well if you want to get the most from it. This means you must prioritise. You must…
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Your judgement is the foundation on which all marking rests – and what this means for how to maximise the impact of your marking and minimise the time it takes to do it
When you mark learner work, you judge. Marking is judgement. As a teacher becomes more experienced, so they tend to mark more efficiently. This is largely because they have a…
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Discover how to take control of your marking and how to stop your marking having control over you
Purposeful marking means you are in control of why you are marking. It means you have a clear purpose directing your efforts. A purpose you have decided in advance and…