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Silvia Bastow
Aug 231 min read
Grade Boundaries 2018-2024 Comparison
Using the spreadsheet shared by Ben Merritt on Secondary MFL Matters, I've completed a comparison for Edexcel. Tab 1 (Picture 1): This...
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Silvia Bastow
Jun 154 min read
In Our Department: Revamping the Marking and Feedback Strategy for MFL
In our department, we are committed to ensuring that our approach to marking and feedback for Modern Foreign Languages is both effective...
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Silvia Bastow
May 8, 20233 min read
Live marking
In this post, I would like to concentrate on the one element of our job which most of the colleagues (myself including) that I have...
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Silvia Bastow
Mar 4, 20234 min read
Mini whiteboards – the number 1 classroom tool?
With recent publications of various edu-books, mini whiteboards seem to be experiencing some kind of ‘re-birth’ in the world of...
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Silvia Bastow
Mar 6, 20223 min read
Show Calling
One of the six pedagogical principles of expert teaching is modelling, a research-informed strategy demonstrating to our students how to...
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Silvia Bastow
Jul 17, 20212 min read
Multiple-Choice Quizzes (MCQ)
Following my previous post on Thinking about assessment where I have mentioned using multiple-choice quizzes (MCQ) for formative...
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Silvia Bastow
Jul 4, 20216 min read
Thinking about assessment
‘Assessment is, indeed, the bridge between teaching and learning.’ Dylan William The importance of assessment is obvious, it is a process...
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Silvia Bastow
May 22, 20217 min read
Effective questioning techniques in Languages classroom
What is effective questioning in the classroom? Effective questions are defined as questions focusing on eliciting the process in...
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Silvia Bastow
Mar 6, 20216 min read
Feedback reflections
Recently, I have read ‘The Feedback Pendulum’ by Michael Chiles which analyses different types of feedback and its research based...
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