Less Marking, More Feedback – David Didau, (@learningspy, an educational consultant, author of ‘What if everything you know about Education is wrong?’, ‘The Secret of Literacy’ and ‘The Secret of the Perfect OFSTED English Lesson’).
Everyone agrees feedback is important so we just get on with the onerous choose of marking because that’s just what good teachers do. Except marking and feedback are not the same. What if we could reduce marking and at the same time increase feedback? This session will tease out some of the reason why we mark and suggest alternative, more manageable ways to get what we really want: students making progres
A brief bio:
As well as working as a freelance writer, speaker and trainer, David Didau is employed by Swindon Academy as an internal consultant advising on curriculum design, teaching and literacy.His blog, The Learning Spy, is one of the most influential education blogs in the UK and has won a number of awards. In addition to this he has also authored a number of books including ‘The Secret of Literacy’. His most recent book ‘What if everything you knew about education was wrong?’ explores the idea that much of what happens in schools is based on unexamined assumptions.
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