The #CAGs version of Line of Duty.
Sophie, do you think you will have those Year 11 assessments marked for Tuesday?
What are other schools doing for their #CAGs?
Look, I have made a spreadsheet to grade all the assessment objectives.
Frank, how do we know the grades aren’t inflated?
Right, for each folder, we need four exam papers for each literature text.
So let me get this right. We can use whatever grade boundaries we want.
So, to stop students from seeing grades beforehand, we are going to use letters instead of numbers. 9 is H. So based on last year we’ll have 3 Hs. Not a forth, Buckles.
Sarah, I have called the exam board for some clarification on how to deal with that student’s portfolio. They said:
Right, moderation time team. Ted, Kate marked this as a 4. Do you agree?
Look, Brian came up with a really simple way to sort out your rank order.
Sarah, I called the exam board to see if they have any more papers for us to use. They said:
Kate, we’ve had the call. Can you get your subject’s sample ready?
I see you filled the forms in green ink and you know our policy is for blue ink.
Tim, you’ve marked all your assessments? What? Even the ones set yesterday?
We asked the exam board how to mark the reading section and again they said:
How the department who have finished all their CAGs walks through the school
Leaders - is there anything we can help you with? Remember...
Roz said she’d rather give an arm than mark one more assessment for CAGs.
Kate, convinced of plagiarism is crossmatching an old Year 8 assessment with a Year 11 assessment. She is hoping to spot a common spelling error - definately
Chloe, the youngest teacher in the department manages to get everything done well before time with no fuss or complaints.
James has just started this month yet he wants to take credit for the past 6 years of the series - I mean six months
Sarah tired of calling the exam board for help called one last time to complain. They responded:
Steve - I don’t care what is happening outside mark those assessments
Ted, you said your assessments were on your laptop. Where is your laptop?
Look, if the moderation flags up some dodgy marking, we’ll blame that teacher from years ago. Jackie Laverty. Nobody remembers her.
Do you mean the one who stank out the staffroom fridge with her lunch?
John works in both the Humanities and English department. He’s got pressure from both sides. He doesn’t know which department to help with marking.
Georgia, a student teacher, promised to stay behind and help with moderation and when school finishes she is nowhere to be found. Like she fell off the Earth.
Ted when he sees the vague JCQ grade descriptors
Every teacher at the moment
Carmichael is an exam marker and offers her point of view in the moderation. Simon the NQT thinks the Question 2 Paper 2 is band 2.
Kate has spent too long marking she has stopped making sense when talking. Are you ok, Kate?
Ted is that teacher, when there’s only 30mins before the caretaker closes the school and you have 20 more folders to moderate, who wants to tell an anecdote.
The same conversation in every department and in every school.
Pilkington needs a Grade 5 for this college placement. He spends every lesson with this look.
After 17 calls to the helpline, 26 tweets and 47 emails to the exam board, the message is still the same.
Jill was a bit smug in her data meeting because her Year 11s have sat an exam in November so has ‘valid’ data.
Steve learns today that you cannot bulk upload grades for the exam board. Each one has to be manually uploaded.
Roz has decided that she isn’t going to blamed for the CAGs so she is planning for her husband to take the blame. A bold move when he isn’t even a teacher.
Cotton manages to have all Grade 9s in his class. Funny that when Set 1 has only three.
In every meeting now, teachers have their phones ready for a retrieval.
Whilst Roz is framing her husband for the mess, Kate wipes them from her memory. In fact, everybody’s memory. These CAGs are that important.
The moderation meeting was stopped because somebody questioned Lindsay’s grading of a folder. In fact, the whole department moved to another room. To be safe.
Pilkington really, really needs that Grade 5.
Kate needs those folders and student declarations signed and she’s not going to let anything stand in her way. She takes it on herself to visit students’ homes to get them signed.
Steve said the only way he’ll participate with the moderation is if he could wear PPE. Ted wasn’t impressed.
Ted realises that he has spent all weekend marking for the CAGs for another set to be produced this week.
Jo didn’t like it when people in the department questioned her marking.
There’s always one teacher who hasn’t adjusted to the new grade system yet. Ted, it is Grade 4 and 5.
Ted looking at his CAG folders are deciding a grade.
Steve is in one corner of his living room his TAG marking is in the other corner.
The head of department is that scared of losing a folder or piece of evidence he insists teacher walk in and out of the moderation room with their hands up.
Everybody this week when they open up ‘that’ spreadsheet.
Jo echoes the partners or pets of all teachers this weekend. This is said on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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