31 ways to keep your assessment sharp
Here are a few suggestions to help you set clear targets, use appropriate targets and get keep all parties involved.
1 Keep your purpose in mind
Marking: Finding your style
Teachers mark in a wide variety of ways. The marking style you choose also depends on the age range and subjects you teach.
Mark Me: using comments to drive behaviour
Marking is seen by many as a vile, Sisyphian chore, the tax on your teaching time.
Exam stress? There's an app for that...
Student stress during exam season can manifest itself in some bizarre and disastrous ways. Having been a teacher for 15 years and an examinations officer for five years, Andrew Buck feels as if he has seen most of them.
Don't be daunted by admin
Although the robust nature of teacher training would do quite a lot to help you to become more organised, it is natural to be concerned about getting to grips with the 'office' side of teaching.
A guide to report writing
Writing reports is undeniably one of most teachers’ least favourite party games; they are time-consuming, laborious and painstaking.
The importance of marking
Make no mistake: this is the most important thing you do as a teacher. All the other stuff is of no use whatsoever if you don’t mark your books properly.
The ups and downs of marking
mrsnic, an NQT teaching year 3, explains her love/hate relationship with marking. Does this ring any bells with you?
Advice on the most effective way to mark homework
Marking a class set of books will take you an hour, easy, and probably more.
Engaging with the business of marking
How do you hand back marking? Do you Frisbee the books around the room? Or hand them back individually? Do you comment on each one? Do you use a hand-back-the-marking monitor?