Question 1

Mini Whiteboards

Accepted Answer

Mini whiteboards are an awesome way to keep pupils writing and engaged without adding to your marking workload. They are able to complete the majority of the work on the whiteboards and save their books for assessments and key information. This way, it’ll be easy to keep their books marked and up to date. Who said every piece of work has to be in the books anyway?

Question 2

Peer Assessment

Accepted Answer

This one can be a little tricky to fit into your workload reduction toolkit because pupils will attempt to get away with writing the bare minimum. There have been countless times when I’ve seen pupils write “good work” or “nothing” in the WWW and EBI sections of their partner’s assessment. Make a point to explain the kind of feedback you expect and encourage pupils to be impartial when marking. The purpose of peer assessment is to make the work they produce more effective. It's hard to do that with bias or lazy feedback.

Question 3

Create a Generic Mark Sheet

Accepted Answer

Creating a generic mark sheet cuts marking time in half! It’s such a life saver because it only requires the initial investment of making it and then from there the pupils do the hard work. The generic mark sheet has a list of abbreviations and their meanings. You could have things like ‘SP’ for spelling error and ‘WC’ for word choice (this can be used if you want your pupils to use a more sophisticated word choice). These errors can be corrected during self reflection time.

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Workload Reduction Toolkit: 5 Ways to Reduce Marking Workload For Teachers