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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...
New Year's resolutions for teachers and school leaders
Jan 01, 2016 |
Category: workload
We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
François de La Rochefoucauld
It's a new year, with no mistakes. In the few da...
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(...
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...
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