
INSET : Smart Marking & Feedback Strategies
Transformational David Luard, Northcote Lodge School Smart Marking – making marking meaningful, manageable and motivating again! Just 45 per cent of primary and 44 per…
Transformational David Luard, Northcote Lodge School Smart Marking – making marking meaningful, manageable and motivating again! Just 45 per cent of primary and 44 per…
“Excellent! Pragmatic, realistic and no waffle!” Jean Raleigh, HOD, Bellerby’s College How is Assessment as learning different from AfL or AoL ? AfL or Assessment…
Thank you so much, really inspiring Carrie Russell, Teaching Assistant, QEH Junior School While teachers everywhere are finding innovative ways of supporting pupils’ learning at…
In recent years school leaders have actively supported a reduction in the marking load on teachers, identified as the main pressure on teachers in the…
With the recent changes to the ISI framework it is essential that teachers and leaders get to grips with the new criteria. This course also presents practical ways to mark smarter and how the research shows that improving marking and feedback is the number one way of adding value to pupil progression and attainment.
Any marking policy must have the students at the heart of it. What happens to all your marking comments? We teachers spend hours and hours…
All schools use huge amounts of data to support them in the work they do. Information on pupil attainment and progress is the most complex…
‘Mindsets’, the simple but compelling idea put forward by Carol Dweck of Stanford University, has taken the US educational system by storm and challenged the way our Stateside colleagues view learning, talent and ability. Teachers and school leaders have found the approaches and practical tips suggested by mindsets theory have had a clear impact on the performance of learners in their classrooms.
The new Ofsted framework really gives more time for Ofsted inspectors to look at lines of enquiry and subjects in some depth: the now-famous Jacques…
“Excellent subject knowledge combined with a wealth of experience to improve your teaching” Charlotte Knowles, Cheltenham College Designing a curriculum to develop Independent thinkers Over…