Developing Marking & Work Scrutiny Skills

This module is part of the Teaching & Learning Skils Development course. Each module comprises a short introduction to key skills.  Teachers are challenged to implement these skils over the duration of a month and reflect on their progress toward outstanding provision. 

30 Day Challenge

To implement your new learning and support your journey toward becoming a master teacher the following skills, which demonstrate this module’s outcomes, should be practiced over the next 30 days

Where possible, find a colleague who you know is highly skilled in this area.

Shadow them and learn from them. Ask them to support you by observing you put these new skills into action.

In every lesson establish clear learning objectives with well defined success criteria

In the majority of lessons, jointly establish learning goals with your students

All work samples should be marked within a week of completion

For every piece of work, ask the 4 guiding questions

Implement the 3 c’s on the majority of work samples

Implement a key for feedback symbols

Focus all feedback on skills and processes

Eliminate Phrases to Avoid completely from your feedback!

 

On the majority of work ask students to Self-Feedback

 

On most work, add an additional challenge for students to complete to deepen knowledge