I love red pens and I cannot lie - you?

[LordPalmerston]

and reserve the right to use them ( with appropriate marking)

Imo the colour of the pen is a smoke screen to poor marking. If the marking is good, you can use what ever colour you want.

¡ Viva los pennos reddos!

I did a student voice thing of yr 11 a while back - the only thing they agreed on was that they like it when teachers draw smiley faces on their work!

One of my colleagues got a marvellous stamp as her Secret Santa gift a few years back. It said "I haven't got time to mark this shit."

My best us a Facebook style LIKE one. Although used the dislike yesterday. Grr

Cba with stamps - I always lose them.

A spoof book/notebook

This didn't deserve a whole thread, so I'm just leaving it here - one for the Amazon wishlist?

DrSeuss - google translate is the bain of my life
Someone should invent a stamp for language teachers "Beware of Google Translate!"

i mark in red,kids self/peermark in green. i want to buy a what went well even better if reponse stamp

they sell those

My kids' school uses pink highlighter (tickled pink) for good and green (growing green) for improvements. I couldn't get over the amount of time that must be spent marking (secondary drama here) when we went to parents evening.

We do good stuff in green, next steps in purple and peers marking in red! It looks like a rainbow in books...

Red ink in fountain pen here. Drives my colleague mad when I don't have a spare red pen for his marking. Use green for peer marking. Purple pens are for when kids forget their pens (teach boys and most think it's too girly so amazingly this year most of them have their own or sort borrowing a mates quietly without it interrupting my lesson!). And traffic light smiley face stickers (green =happy; Orange= straight line; red=sad) to indicate what needs attention. This is all me. School doesn't have explicit rules re consistency of marking!