The Teaching Space

Episode 86 of The Teaching Space Podcast explores 5 more ways teachers can mark faster and smarter. Introduction This episode is a follow up to podcast episode 6 in which we looked at: Feedback abbreviations Feedback database Rubrics Peer and self-assessment Video feedback 1. Work Less Than Your Students The idea of marking so you work less than your students is inspired by a blog post I read on Teacher Toolkit. It’s not a tool as such, it is more of a mindset, and will, of course, be dictated by your students’ specific needs. However, ask yourself honestly, do you do too much when you mark? Any example could be as simple as correcting spellings. Rather than correct them, perhaps highlight the word in a specific colour and ensure the student knows that colour means ‘spelling error, please correct’. You might have a colour code. It might be you highlight a paragraph, rather than the word, so the student works harder. On a similar theme (bear in mind I teach adults), when I receive a typed assignment that has