Make your ‘Marking Policy’ a ‘Feedback Policy’
Marking workload getting on top of you? Many schools, and departments, have been reflecting about their marking policies ever since OFSTED declared more than a healthy interest in scrutinising books....
View ArticleQuestioning and Oral Feedback – Our ‘Bread and Butter’
Questioning and oral feedback – the ‘bread and butter’ of great teaching! A few weeks ago I had the great pleasure to present to the staff of my school for just over an hour on teaching and learning....
View ArticleOral Formative Feedback – Top Ten Strategies
People who have read my #marginalgains blog posts will know I am going over old ground here – intentionally so – as I am looking to dig deeper towards the key marginal gains that have the biggest...
View ArticleHuntingEnglish – My Top Ten Blog Posts of 2012
Just over half a year ago I decided to begin a blog, in unison with a new Twitter account, with both very much representing my professional self. I have been surprised and delighted by the breadth and...
View ArticleExplanations: Top Ten Teaching Tips
“There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....