Updated: Marking, Feedback and DIRT ideas
After seeing a post on Friday about tip, think and challenge marking on TALK Bridgewater I was reminded of the resource I’d created with 15 ideas for Marking, Feedback and DIRT for a CPD session and...
View ArticleResource: Feedforward Book Look Record
Following my own presentation at #pedagoohampshire16 I’ve decided to try out marking crib sheets and whole class feedback in order to be able to check books more regularly but mark less since I want...
View ArticlePromoting Peer Assessment
As you’re probably aware by now, I do a lot of peer and self assessment, feedback and directed improvement and reflection time (DIRT) in my lessons. For some time now I’ve had students use different...
View Article#LearningFirst 3 Pillars Workshop
This weekend I had the pleasure of attending and presenting a workshop at the Beyond Levels #LearningFirst Conference at Canterbury Christ Church University. I went away inspired as well as with a...
View ArticleMy Marking and Feedback Toolkit
I think we all know by now that I actually love providing feedback in all shapes and forms. Over the past 3 years I’ve tried a large variety of methods to find what works best. Some methods are my go...
View ArticleStop. Peer assess. Progress.
How often do you carry out peer assessment at the end of a task? I know I used to do it a lot in the past, I’d get students to read each other’s work, write a WWW and EBI comment or a kind, specific...
View ArticleMrs Humanities shares… 5 Whole Class Feedback Examples
The time was September 2016, I shared a version of a Marking Crib Sheet from @MrThorntonTeach at Pedagoo Hampshire 2016 and since then I’ve been seeing whole class feedback every where. It even forms...
View ArticleDeveloping a Feedback NOT Marking ‘Policy’
This summer I was tasked with the job of editing and improving the Department Handbook I had inherited. One of my key focuses was going to be on creating consistency in marking and feedback within the...
View ArticleMrs Humanities shares… how I cut down my marking workload.
If there is one thing that has had the biggest impact on my work-life balance it has to be assessment and marking. There was once a time when marking took me several hours an evening and several over...
View ArticleMrs Humanities shares… 10 useful blog posts about feedback
When I first started writing about marking and feedback back in February 2015, it was an issue for many but it was barely on the radar of bloggers and #EduTwitter. It was a period of research for me...
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