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The problem with marking and how to solve it

Jan 31, 2022 | Category: workload
Every teacher - particularly English teachers - has huge existential guilt about marking. When I worked full time as a teacher marking was the first thing to go when the stress inevitably piled up. An...
#marking #feedback #proofreading #whole class feedback #teacher presence

Marking: What (some) Ofsted Inspectors (still) want

Dec 03, 2015 | Category: workload
It is up to schools themselves to determine their practices and for leadership teams to justify these on their own merits rather than by reference to the inspection handbook. UPDATE: There is a happy(...
#Ofsted #marking #workload

Marking and feedback are not the same

Sep 19, 2015 | Category: workload
Feedback is, we're told, the most powerfully important invention in which a teacher can engage, but marking students' books can be mind-numbingly tedious drudgery. Because of this tension, many school...
#marking #feedback #EEF

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