This document outlines strategies for effectively managing the workload of marking student assignments. It recommends prioritizing marking using a monitoring sheet. It also suggests marking assignments efficiently by only commenting on the specific piece of work, linking comments to learning objectives, and collecting assignments in alphabetical order. The document stresses the importance of ensuring marking is purposeful by providing general feedback and allowing students time to respond to feedback through tasks like correcting errors. It concludes by noting the importance of periodically monitoring student work and communicating with managers about unreasonable marking loads.

2. TIME MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATION OF
PURPOSEFUL MARKING
1. Managing/prioritising workload - assessment/class notes.
 Use of a monitoring sheet;
 Fitting with PPAs.

3. TIME MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATION OF
PURPOSEFUL MARKING
2. Speed:
 taking books in open;
 only commenting on THAT piece of work;
 linking comments to an LO.
 Assessments collected in alphabetical order and mark slips
glued in by students.

4. TIME MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATION OF
PURPOSEFUL MARKING
3. Ensuring marking is purposeful:
 general feedback at start of following lesson (linked to the
LO),
 followed by 'purple pen' time - which could include 'own
starting point' intervention 'Act' tasks.

5. HL Feedback
Horse Whisperer Responses
Good interpretation
Secure use of quotations –
sometimes embedded.
MUST focus explicitly on poet’s
intentions and reader reaction.

6. DO NOW: review your marked work.
Collect a purple pen:
 Respond to any questions – develop longer
responses.
 Do any ACT tasks.
 Use dictionaries to do any spelling corrections.
 Correct marked punctuation errors.
 You may need to collect an intervention
worksheet to complete.

7. TIME MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATION OF
PURPOSEFUL MARKING
4. Monitoring of books:
 Could be half termly/termly
 Tick ‘n’ flick – overview comments. EG on general state of
book, detail of notes…

8. AND FINALLY…
SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE AN UNREASONABLE AMOUNT OF MARKING AT
ONCE...TALK TO YOUR LINE MANAGER!