Classroom-ready thinking on teaching, learning, assessment, AI in education and getting more out of Jeddle - developed for years 7-12 in Australian schools.
Because markers read the same handful of quotes hundreds of times. Choosing rarer passages you found yourself, and can analyse in your own words, immediately separates…
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Accept that a serious outside commitment costs something, then protect rest deliberately rather than by accident. Logan practised piano three to five hours a day, still…
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Write plans. The student who ranked first in NSW for Modern History could not memorise essays and instead built a plan for every syllabus point she…
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Do enough past papers that the question types become familiar, then build a reusable structure for each. Focus on the source's author, motive, bias and context…
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Answer the question in your first sentence with built-in nuance, usually by opening with whilst so you are forced to concede another factor. Then keep three…
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Drill multiple choice until it is automatic, plan every short answer in the margin before writing, and let the directive term dictate the structure of each…
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Use four to five body paragraphs of roughly 1,100 to 1,200 words in total, opening with your strongest argument and placing any counter-argument second-last or last.…
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Find a critic who already agrees with a point you were going to make, then quote two or three of their words inside your own sentence.…
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Because form is the composer's largest decision and most students never mention it. Leading with the text type, genre, structure or narrative voice, then supporting it…
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Markers reward a clear thesis that engages the question's higher-order word, evidence chosen to prove a specific point, analysis that explains meaning rather than names devices,…
Read moreAI marking tools ingest your rubric or success criteria, break them into individual criteria and performance bands, then judge each student response against those descriptors to…
Read moreThe best AI marking tool for Australian teachers is the one that fits your curriculum, protects student privacy and keeps you in control of the final…
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