I actually heard the idea of statement banks for marking floating around my school a couple of weeks ago. But it filled me with memories of writing crappy, unpersonal school reports a few years back by picking statements from a bank. Also the word "bank" scared me initially as it made me think that I'd need to write a lot of statements.
But today, the pile of marking on my desk was growing to a level that made me anxious. It was lunchtime, I had about half an hour, how was I going to make a significant indent on the pile?
I flicked through a pile of year 9 home works and looked for common strengths and areas for improvement. On a PowerPoint slide I wrote three what went wells, and three even better ifs. I numbered the WWW 1-3 and the EBIs A-C. The reality is, that if I am marking work in the WWW and EBI way anyway, I find myself repeating my comments over and over. If you have a wide enough range of comments to fit the work, it will still be personal enough.
Then it took me about 10 minutes to go through the kids work and write "1B" or "3A" etc. on each piece. I still pointed out spelling errors and so on on their work, and wrote a couple of personalised comments where my statements didn't fit.
Now, next lesson I will put my ppt slide up for all to see and the students can write their relevant comments on their work for me. This also helps them take ownership of their progress by writing out what they did well and what they need to improve.
This is going to make marking so much quicker. Try it!
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