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Tag: targets
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Make marking quicker! 60 no-planning, ready-made targets you can use to give feedback on thinking, creativity and attention to detail
Giving feedback takes time. You have to mark learners’ work, assess what they’ve done, and then come up with a response that helps them understand what they’ve done well and…
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Give targets with ease! 60 no-planning, ready-made targets you can use to give feedback on argumentation, content and mastery
Marking takes time. Part of that is down to volume. Part is down to the process of assessment you need to go through. And part is down to the formulation…
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Regain balance in your marking! 40 no-planning, ready-made targets you can use to give feedback on critical thinking and how learners assess their own work
Sometimes we get bogged down in marking. It takes time and it’s hard to simplify. However, there is one tool we can use that goes a long way to making…
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Rationalise your feedback! 40 no-planning, ready-made targets you can use to give feedback on speaking and listening, language and vocabulary
Sometimes we get bogged down in marking. It takes time and it’s hard to simplify. However, there is one tool we can use that goes a long way to making…
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Five straightforward ways you can help your learners set themselves meaningful, relevant targets, every time self-assessment is on the agenda
Self-assessment opens up success criteria. It helps learners better understand what their work is being judged against. What good looks like. Opening up success criteria is one of the three…
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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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Getting learners to implement your written feedback: demonstrating competence
This is where we give learners opportunities to demonstrate competence to us, or one of their peers, during a lesson. It means planning sessions in which these opportunities take centre…
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How to use the two fundamentals of teaching you rely on every day to improve target implementation in your classroom
Sometimes, learners will really struggle to implement your targets. They may not understand them, may find the process of change difficult, or may find it hard to visualise how their…
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Why creating activities with target implementation in mind can be a gamechanger for your classroom – and your workload
Why not structure your planning so that learners have the chance to implement their targets during the following lesson, and to do so through an appropriate activity? For example, a…