No more marking

By Ian Powell2019-06-17T11:10:00

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Stop marking books, start talking feedback

With attention on the ‘workload challenge’, senior leaders at one school were open to the concept of empowering teachers to take professional responsibility for the education they provide, reducing workload for all teachers and promoting positive professionalism by allowing the science department to stop marking exercise books. This is how it works.

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