Greg Saunders

In A-Level politics I find that not giving a grade can be very helpful. At first students find it very annoying, but ultimately it does require them to consider their feedback and set themselves targets.

I think we'd all like to be teaching in systems that valued distance travelled and achievement over time more consistently, but the hard fact is that the qualifications most of us are working to are reduced to a brutal grade at the end of the course. We do, however, have a duty to awaken students to the fact that the process is one of learning rather than passing exams.