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April 11, 2018

3 Steps to High Impact Marking

With marking listed as one of the three areas in the government’s workload challenge, none of us can afford to spend time assessing pupils’ work without the certainty that this effort will lead to further progress. These are our three steps to ensuring that assessment always leads to progress. Continue Reading

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January 29, 2018

Marking Efficiently

Today I spent some time looking through over a hundred exercise books. Whilst there is some feedback to go to specific departments, what I was really interested in was efficiency and whether the time we spend marking proportionate to the impact on learning?  Continue Reading

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January 22, 2018

Knowledge Organised: Now What?

Thank you for this great blog put together by the Teaching and Learning group: it’s a really useful list of practical ideas for using Knowledge Organisers in your classroom.  Continue Reading

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January 18, 2018

Low Stakes: High Impact

With the term low stakes testing being used so frequently, I thought it would be helpful to focus on what this really means, why we do it and (most importantly!) how we go about it in the classroom.

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November 13, 2017

Question Time!

Thank you for this great blog which is written by another teacher from our school. If you would like to contribute a blog post, please email me on cellison@kennetschool.co.uk. Enjoy! Continue Reading

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October 16, 2017

Reading (mis)Comprehension?

A common challenge I hear from teachers in my literacy role, is that of getting pupils to read for understanding. It seems that all too often, pupils are able to read the entirety of a text without taking in its meaning or being able to do anything with it afterwards. So why does this happen and what can we do about it?  Continue Reading

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October 10, 2017

Mastery Principles that Work for Everyone

The idea of ‘mastery teaching’ has been an educational buzzword for some time, but what does it really mean and what can every teacher learn from its principles? Continue Reading

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