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Tag: feedback strategies
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Five oven-ready strategies any teacher can use to create a culture of improvement through their written feedback
Your written feedback will play a bigger role in learning if you can create a culture of improvement in your classroom. By this, I mean a culture in which learners…
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Using written feedback to normalise challenge in the minds of your learners
If we find ourselves challenged then the likelihood is that we are learning or, at least, in a position from which to learn. This is because something is a challenge…
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Why does written feedback work and what do expert teachers do when they deliver it?
Written feedback predominantly comprises information that can be divided into one of two categories: strengths and targets. Strengths are the things the learner has done well. The target is the…
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Five examples of instant, real-time feedback and the impact it can have on learners in your lessons
In some settings, real-time verbal feedback can be of huge benefit to learners by providing them with information they can use to modify their thinking and behaviour in the moment.…
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Instead of giving verbal feedback on the work that learners are producing, try giving it on this instead
When giving verbal feedback during lessons, one useful area on which you can focus is learner thinking. This means providing information learners can use to think differently, to change their…
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Four simple techniques for using mistakes as a meaningful basis for your verbal feedback
Mistakes are one of the main ways in which we learn. They often present information that helps us to make significant alterations to our thinking and the ways in which…
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Five ways you can use verbal feedback as an underrated form of scaffolding
Verbal feedback can be an effective tool for scaffolding learner. Here are five strategies to consider. A learner is struggling to get started with a task Feedback can take the…
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Seven strategies for giving formative feedback while your activities are in full swing
Mid-activity feedback is perhaps the most common form of verbal feedback. The one we use the most when teaching. This is where we give learners feedback while they are engaged…
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Why giving feedback before an activity starts can be as useful as giving it when an activity has ended
Activities are the main feature of lessons. This is where much of the learning happens. We can give verbal feedback before and after activities, to individuals, groups or the whole…
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How can you help learners produce the kind of work that is most worth marking?
What do you want to mark? This is a question worth considering. And we might turn it around and ask: What do you want to give feedback on? These questions…