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Teaching

11 posts tagged "teaching".

Teaching

O-Level Situational Writing: what makes up the 30 marks

O-Level Situational Writing carries 30 marks: Task Fulfilment 10, Language 20. The band descriptors, the word count, and why Band 3 to 4 is the real gap.

24 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
Teaching

How teachers stay in control of AI marking

An AI marker on its own agrees with a human about a third of the time. What makes it useful is where the teacher's judgement goes in, and if it stays.

22 Aug 2026 · 9 min read
Teaching

How to teach Gen Alpha: are they actually harder to teach?

Teachers say Gen Alpha are harder to teach. The attention evidence is thinner than it sounds, and the workload numbers point somewhere other than marking.

21 Aug 2026 · 9 min read
Teaching

What's new in August: editing, re-grading, and skills

Edit or delete any annotation, re-grade only when you choose, undo any change in one click, and see which skills each piece of writing shows.

21 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
Teaching

Personalised learning at class scale: what AI changes

Almost every AI education pitch cites Bloom's two sigma. The study ran three weeks and has never been replicated. What personalised learning can really do.

20 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
Teaching

AI grading is only as good as the rubric behind it

In the largest meta-analysis of feedback, 38% of interventions made performance worse. What that means for AI grading, and for the rubric behind it.

13 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Teaching

PSLE 2026 revision timetable: plan backwards from the papers

Seven weeks to the written papers, one to the Oral. A PSLE 2026 revision timetable planned backwards from the real exam dates, and what to give up on.

6 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
Teaching

How to read a class gradebook (and what it cannot tell you)

Read the class average row before any individual child. A dip down a column is usually the task, not the class. Why completion and attainment go together.

29 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
Teaching

Marking a class set, without losing the evening

Thirty scripts, one rubric, and a first pass that is already done when you sit down. What actually changes when the marking is drafted before you start.

28 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
Teaching

What if AI gave teachers their evenings back?

Forty essays can swallow a weekend. What changes when the first pass is drafted before you sit down, and why the marking still has to be yours.

5 Jun 2026 · 6 min read