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Category: Yacapaca
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Before half term, I sent a small survey to 10,000 teachers in UK secondary schools. I already knew that a popular “life after levels” alternative to NC Levels at KS3 was to extend GCSE grading all the way down to Y7, but I needed more detail to help plan our future grading strategy at Yacapaca.…
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The Peer Assessment log is a treasure trove for any teacher who wants to gain a deeper understanding of their students. If you want to know how students really think and write, don’t read their essays, read what they write for consumption by
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Notwithstanding my general preference for state, non-selective, secular schooling, I am fascinated by Prof James Tooley’s work promoting the value of low-cost private schools. These two recent articles are well worth your time: School choice has worked in India. But we need to compare like with like. Private or Public: Does the proliferation of low-fee/low-cost private…
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Whilst running this term’s authoring CPD, I started getting really bugged that to get from the Activity Log view to the Detail view, I had to go via the Assignments page and Actions dropdown. We’ve never had a single complaint about this, so maybe it’s just me, but nevertheless, time to do something about it. So,…
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I have yet to meet a single head or senior teacher who can answer this off the top of their heads, but it is easy to work out using government-published figures. Teachers work 55.7 hours/week total1, and spend 9.4 hours/week marking2. That’s 17%. The average teacher salary is £28,9513, but we have to add the employer’s…
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