Post your hacks for marking below. I'll start: Live marking & feedback. (No one wants to sit 3.30-5pm with a stack of 90 books from the day)
@WhistleblowingT Planning what you’re going to mark and when. Be savvy: if Y13 are doing a timed essay use their silent time to mark other books. If you don’t end up marking their work, be honest, “I left my bag at home” doesn’t wash with kids but they understand life gets in the way.
@WhistleblowingT Self assessment. What’s quicker than one person marking 30 books? 30 people marking 1 book
@WhistleblowingT Walk around the class with a pen when they are doing their work and give it a flick and tick (the work not the student). You get some steps on as well and get to talk to students.
@WhistleblowingT Mail merge - no point in manually adding up or writing the same targets over and over again.
@WhistleblowingT 5 a day. Literally just do 5 a day whenever you can.
@WhistleblowingT Little written marking. Take papers in, read, have sheet of common misconceptions and sort into piles then flip feedback for next day.
@WhistleblowingT Love marking and feedback is the only way to go if you want a life
@WhistleblowingT Get the students to open the books up to the page you want marking and stack - saves time trying to locate the work to begin with.