How to Use Feedback and Marking in the Classroom: The Complete Guide - Paperback

by Mike Gershon (Author)

Do you want to improve the quality of your feedback, make your marking easier, and maintain a work/life balance?

As a teacher, you understand the power of feedback and the importance of marking. And you also know how time-consuming it can be. This book, from bestselling author and expert trainer Mike Gershon, helps you to mark and give feedback in ways that are both efficient and effective.

In this completely comprehensive guide to feedback and marking, you'll learn:

• How to deliver feedback that works for learners and saves you time.
• Ways to mark that are both efficient and effective, making your life easier.
• How to maximise the impact of your feedback and marking, so your learners make better progress and you have greater control over your work/life balance.

Mike has been working with schools and teachers for over a decade, helping them to make sense of feedback and marking. A former teacher, he knows how demanding the job can be. When you read How to Use Feedback and Marking in the Classroom you'll appreciate Mike's practical focus. Throughout, he gives you simple, easy-to-use strategies that you can apply whether you are a primary or secondary teacher, just starting out in your career or more experienced.

Sections include:

• Effective Feedback
• Efficient and Effective Marking
• Verbal Feedback
• Written Feedback
• Targets and Target Implementation
• Feedback and Marking Techniques
• Exemplar Targets and Questions

Take back control of your time and start delivering high quality feedback and efficient marking that has a great impact on learners, while being sustainable and realistic for yourself.

Author Biography

Mike Gershon is an expert educationalist whose knowledge of teaching and learning extends across the age ranges and the curriculum. His online teaching tools have been viewed and downloaded more than 3.5 million times by teachers in over 180 countries and territories. They include the now famous Starter Generator, Plenary Producer and AFL Toolkit. He is also the author of more than 30 books on teaching and learning, including bestsellers covering categories such as outstanding teaching, assessment for learning, differentiation, questioning, growth mindsets and Bloom's Taxonomy. He has written more than 50 guides looking at different areas of classroom practice. All of Mike's work is closely focused on the practicalities of pedagogy; teachers across the world return to his work because of its relevance to the classroom and the immediacy with which the ideas can be implemented. Find out more at www.mikegershon.com and www.gershongrowthmindsets.com