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Less marking, more feedback: A challenge and a proposal

Dec 01, 2016 | Category: leadership

I've been arguing for some time that if teachers spent less time marking (by which I mean writing comments on students' work) then they might have a lot more time for giving meaningful feedback which...

#marking #feedback #intelligent accountability

Marking is an act of folly

Nov 30, 2016 | Category: leadership

Contrary to popular belief, marking and feedback are not the same thing. Clearly they're connected - and, ideally most marking has the intention of giving feedback - but the process of marking or givi...

#marking #feedback #EEF

Opportunity knocks: the hidden cost of bad ideas

Nov 30, 2015 | Category: leadership

Remember that Time is Money. He that can earn Ten Shillings a Day by his Labour, and goes abroad, or sits idle one half of that Day, tho’ he spends but Sixpence during his Diversion or Idleness, ought...

#marking #opportunity cost

Two stars and a bloody wish!

May 03, 2015 | Category: leadership

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.Jean de La Bruyère We are held hostage by our superstitious belief in the mystical power of marking to...

#marking #two stars and a wish #www ebi

Why 'triple marking' is wrong (and not my fault)

Nov 29, 2014 | Category: leadership

You can't blame celebrity edubloggers for teachers' unreasonable workloads - Albert Einstein In his indefatigable efforts to get schools and teachers to recognise that much of what is done in the name...

#Ofsted #marking #Triple impact marking #Mike Cladingbowl #workload