Victoria Hewett
Creating a Coherent Curriculum: Geography
Creating a coherent curriculum is no easy feat. I know because I once did it from scratch single-handily for Humanities! Thankfully, I’m...
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Victoria Hewett
- Mar 9, 2019
- 2 min
Resource – The Power of Feedback Download
I know not everyone sees the power of feedback in the same way I do. I also recognise that not everyone that has tried implementing...
Victoria Hewett
- Feb 15, 2019
- 4 min
Embedding Feedback: An Example
When I first started investigating marking and feedback, I never thought it would change my practice the way it has. During my PGCE and...
Victoria Hewett
- Sep 22, 2018
- 4 min
Mrs Humanities shares… how I cut down my marking workload.
If there is one thing that has had the biggest impact on my work-life balance it has to be assessment and marking. There was once a time...
Victoria Hewett
- Jan 16, 2018
- 2 min
Mrs Humanities shares… 5 simple feedback strategies
1 // Feedback Grids Not only do feedback grids allow you to live mark, they provide students with success criteria. Get your grids made...
Victoria Hewett
- Nov 7, 2017
- 3 min
Developing a Feedback NOT Marking ‘Policy’
This summer I was tasked with the job of editing and improving the Department Handbook I had inherited. One of my key focuses was going...
Victoria Hewett
- Oct 15, 2017
- 3 min
Mrs Humanities shares… Whole Class Feedback Examples
The time was September 2016, I shared a version of a Marking Crib Sheet from @MrThorntonTeach at Pedagoo Hampshire 2016 and since then...
Victoria Hewett
- Oct 1, 2017
- 3 min
Mrs Humanities shares… 5 wellbeing strategies
Wellbeing is being flung around from here to there these days…. and about time to be honest. However, my concern is that too often...
Victoria Hewett
- May 29, 2017
- 3 min
Stop. Peer assess. Progress.Â
Then when I started using DIRT in lessons, I might have got students to re-write a piece of their work or write an additional piece in...
Victoria Hewett
- Apr 4, 2017
- 7 min
First steps towards #feedbackNOTmarking
This post is well a post from the heart. It’s a topic I feel passionate about. During my PGCE I hated marking. It felt so tedious,...
Victoria Hewett
- Jan 31, 2017
- 4 min
My Marking and Feedback Toolkit
I thought I’d share my top 5 feedback approaches that have become my #feedbackNOTmarking toolkit. ACE Peer Assessment or the more recent...
Victoria Hewett
- Jan 31, 2017
- 1 min
#LearningFirst 3 Pillars Workshop
This weekend I had the pleasure of attending and presenting a workshop at the Beyond Levels #LearningFirst Conference at Canterbury...
Victoria Hewett
- Jan 15, 2017
- 1 min
Resource – SpACE Peer Assessment
ACE peer assessment, I was recently introduced to a step up on the concept. Taking ACE to SpACE simply by adding spelling to the...
Victoria Hewett
- Oct 16, 2016
- 1 min
Resource – ACE Peer Assessment
I want them to understand mark schemes and understand the exam style questions. In order to help with this I’ve introduced with them ACE...
Victoria Hewett
- Oct 16, 2016
- 5 min
3 Pillars of Effective Marking (& Feedback)
During my presentation at PedagooHampshire16 in September, I mentioned the 3 pillars of effective marking that came out of the...
Victoria Hewett
- Oct 15, 2016
- 2 min
Promoting Peer Assessment
As you’re probably aware by now, I do a lot of peer and self assessment, feedback and directed improvement and reflection time (DIRT) in...
Victoria Hewett
- Sep 20, 2016
- 2 min
Less is More – Marking with a Purpose
What a delight it was. I was completely blown away by the number of people present in the room when I presented on the topic of Less is...
Victoria Hewett
- Sep 20, 2016
- 2 min
Resource: Feedforward Book Look Record
Following on from some inspiration from @MrThorntonTeach I decided to make a marking crib sheet which I’ve called the Feedforward Book...
Victoria Hewett
- Jun 18, 2016
- 1 min
Need to Know Learning Matrix
Not only does it allow me to track progress, outline Schemes of Work to the students and provide feedback, it encourages independent...
Victoria Hewett
- Apr 3, 2016
- 2 min
Updated: Marking, Feedback and DIRT ideas
After seeing a post on Friday about tip, think and challenge marking on TALK Bridgewater I was reminded of the resource I’d created with...
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