Marking in many schools has reached fetish level. It’s out of all balance with other key activities teachers must undertake most noticeably planning. Ofsted reports, for too many years, have obsessed about marking – I managed a hat-trick of marking as a key issue for action in consecutive reports over a decade – but subject and curriculum planning is rarely mentioned. Continue reading
Curriculum coverage is arguably the curse of the English Education system; a mile wide and an inch deep. Decades of national curriculum with the indispensable and the peripheral intertwined and given a sense of equal importance. Continue reading