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Two ideas to save marking time

As her marking pile grows steadily larger, our NQT diarist is given two invaluable tips to help speed up her marking and student feedback processes.

This week I have been thinking a lot about books; depressingly not science fiction or travel books. No, this week I have been preoccupied with thoughts about my pupils’ books. This is because I have spent the majority of my free periods holed up in the maths office surrounded by piles and piles of books. I don’t really know how it happened. I thought I had a system. I thought I was on top of it.

What I do know is that I have probably written about the same amount of text in this one week as is contained in the entire His Dark Materials trilogy. However, the things I have written are not fantasy genius and, as has slowly dawned on me, are also painfully repetitive; do you ever find yourself writing the same comment for the same mistake in about 60 different books?

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