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Tag: strengths
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Twenty good-to-go strengths you can use to instantly give your learners feedback on how they are working with others
Having ready-made strengths and targets on hand gives you a scaffold you can use to speed up and streamline your feedback. When we assess learner work, we judge it against…
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Make your life easier! 60 no-planning, ready-made strengths you can use to give feedback on speaking and listening, language, vocabulary, reading and writing
Having a bank of strengths on hand when you’re marking can really help speed up the process. It streamlines your feedback, because you don’t have to think of all your…
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Streamline your marking! 60 no-planning, ready-made strengths you can use to give feedback on thinking, creativity and attention to detail
Marking takes time, especially when you’re writing out formative feedback for your learners. You can speed up the process by having a bank of ready-made strengths and targets on hand.…
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Simplify your feedback! 60 no-planning, ready-made strengths you can use to give feedback on argumentation, content and mastery
Giving feedback can be time-consuming. Identifying what learners have done well and what they need to do to improve takes time. When you have thirty learners in your class, the…
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Give your learners the tools they need to quickly and accurately identify strengths in any piece of work they produce
Identifying Strengths I have found it to be the case in teaching, and in life in general, that many people struggle to identify their own strengths. If learners are to…
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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…