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, 20192 min read
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, 20194 min read
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, 20184 min read
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, 20182 min read
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, 20173 min read
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, 20173 min read
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, 20173 min read
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, 20173 min read
Stop. Peer assess. Progress.
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, 20177 min read
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, 20174 min read
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, 20171 min read
#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, 20171 min read
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, 20161 min read
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, 20165 min read
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, 20162 min read
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, 20162 min read
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, 20162 min read
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, 20161 min read
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, 20162 min read
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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