An example Markbook: using Formative Data to analyse trends
In 2018 my school uses Go4Schools that sees us data put online for ease of analysis from our data...
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15 minute screencast: Example of how to revise quotations from a text, in this case the Crucible.
Example of how to revise quotations from a text, in this case the Crucible. This video gained 1.5k...
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Using The Stanley Parable to teach Narrative Structure and Expectations
Narrative structure and expectation is a difficult topic to teach: it is highly conceptualised,...
Read MoreSix Current Questions about using the Markbook
Although I have developed and shared my formative markbook over three or four years, it has not been used widely. It has been picked up by several schools, and across both science and liberal arts practitioners. I have reflected...
Read MoreExplaining English NC Report to Parents
In every school I have worked in, there have been parents who ask what a report with NC levels actually means. Even with the shifting of terminology (with current levels being abolished and the numbers 1-9 arriving in their...
Read MoreAnnotating while reading
With comments on .pdf, it is possible to annotate while reading. This allows you to pick up your text with AF bookmarks, allowing you to reflect as a classreader on the points devised by yourself and others. This would be...
Read MoreAsynchronous Diagnostic Marking/Feedback December 2013
And so for a month select students have been responding to the diagnostic feedback with some success. Points of note are: 1) One student improved a paragraph of analysis over an hour in an evening From a low d to a b plus. They,...
Read MoreGuiding all students to achieve As – Asynchronous Diagnostic Marking
The irrepressible Kristian Still, like the immense Tom Bennett, write about how they offer every student in their class the aspiration for an A grade. This is every student. They use data as rigorously as anyone, holding...
Read MoreSmart Marking – use of videos as a marking response
A useful thread on the TES revealed a great new resource found by the outstanding ‘roaming teacher’ (whose HoD I met in a queue for samosas somewhat serendipitously a month or so ago) – a website for students...
Read MorePart 1 of Rubric Template Resources – Writing at KS3
I have written for some time about how I have focussed on criteria-based planning rather than content-based planning. Friends and colleagues both at home and abroad and tried to use these rubrics with some success. All have...
Read MoreDifferent Types of Lesson Planning Part 3 – The difference between learning and doing
The best teachers, I find, are the ones who teach for their own reasons. They have the intellectual (and emotional) courage to influence others with no other authority than that which their students may (or may not) perceive in...
Read MoreDifferent Types of Lesson Planning Part 3 – Planning for Students and Planning for Teachers
Aiming to personalise your teaching according to yours students is what teaching is actually about. There is an assumption that the ‘cleverest kids will learn by osmosis’ (and perhaps they will!) while those who...
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