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Marking mythbuster
Meaningful feedback that improves pupils’ work does not have to be written. However, many school leaders are still telling us that they are struggling with reducing marking workload in their school. To help, we've put together this mythbuster to help you work out what you don't have to worry about.
- Alcohol at staff parties
- Building relationships between staff
- Case studies on reducing marking workload
- Case studies on staff wellbeing and work-life balance
- Case study: how one 'outstanding' secondary school cut its marking workload by 75%
- Case study: how to offer flexible working to attract outstanding staff and boost retention
- Case study: save teachers 2 hours a day with strategic minimal marking
- Conquer your inbox: tips and tricks
- Creating a staff mental health and wellbeing action plan
- QuickRead: DfE report on workload and marking
- QuickRead: DfE report on workload and planning
- Effective flexible working arrangements
- Flexible working: examples
- Flexible working for senior leaders
- Improving staff wellbeing and work-life balance: strategies
- Managing workload (headteachers)
- Marking: maintaining a work-life balance
- New headteacher's presentation to staff: content
- Poll results: how to reduce your teachers' workload
- Pre-flight meeting checklist
- Rewarding staff: payments, perks and incentives
- Slash teachers' workload: what to stop doing
- Staff retention
- Staffroom: promoting a positive environment
- Staff survey pack
- Staff wellbeing days
- Staff wellbeing questionnaires
- Start-of-year presentations and meetings for staff
- Strategies to combat stress for small school headteachers
- Supporting trans staff
- Teacher workload audit tool
- What not to do with pupil performance data
- Workload: get to the heart of what's overloading your staff with 'keep, tweak or ditch'
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