Who are you marking for?
A decade on, the dialogue around marking continues to be a significant point of discussion among teachers.
Reflecting on previous conversations, I thought it was worth revisiting the concept of ‘Verbal Feedback Stamps‘ and its place in today’s classrooms.
Verbal Feedback Stamps were once a novel response to the demands of demonstrating progress, a byproduct of a former Ofsted framework, which today appears as a relic of a bygone era, but it silll evident in some teaching and learning policies.
The intention of the VF stamp was clear: to visibly evidence any dialogue occurring between the teacher and pupil.
Utter nonsense, I say.
