Leadership
Workload: How to Reduce Staff Workload Whilst Improving Student Outcomes
Cut the evenings your teachers spend marking, and put that time into feedback that moves pupils' learning on.
- 49 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Test your marking policy against meaningful, manageable and motivating
- Tell a mistake from a misconception and respond to each differently
- Use marking codes and verbal feedback in place of long written comments
- Adapt tomorrow's teaching and groupings using what today's work shows
- Lead the change, including with staff who want to keep the old system
About this course
If your teachers are marking until 11pm in green pen so a book scrutiny can find it, that time could go into feedback that moves pupils on. Hold your marking policy up against three words, meaningful, manageable and motivating, and you may find it falls short.
You'll learn to tell a mistake from a misconception and deal with each differently: a quick marking code for one, a changed lesson the next day for the other. A tick or a stamp covers most work. Leaders check progress by sitting with pupils and asking them to talk through their books, instead of carrying piles away.
The approach was worked out by an assistant head at a primary school in a deprived part of Bristol. You'll know what to expect from staff who cling to the old system, and from the few who treat it as a licence to stop following up.
- For early career teachers, governors and 3 other roles. All phases.
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