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Tag: feedback strategies
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Discover how to take control of your marking and how to stop your marking having control over you
Purposeful marking means you are in control of why you are marking. It means you have a clear purpose directing your efforts. A purpose you have decided in advance and…
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What is the point of marking learners’ work?
Eliciting information is one of, if not the, most important reason for marking learners’ work. Marking lets us elicit information about learners’ knowledge, understanding, existing ability, skill levels, progress and…
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Does feedback work if learners don’t have an opportunity to practice implementing their targets?
If a student does not have the opportunity to act on the feedback they’ve been given, it is highly likely the feedback will disappear into the ether, never to be…
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How to call on the twin pillars of effective teaching to ensure your feedback hits the mark every time
Scaffolding and modelling are two of the key tools all teachers call on to help learners understand ideas and information, successfully complete tasks, and make good progress. Scaffolding is the…
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What is the right amount of feedback? A question few teachers ask, but to which every teacher needs to know the answer.
If you have seven targets to implement at the same time, good luck to you! If you have one on which you can focus all your effort, I’ll wager that…
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The two questions every teacher can ask to instantly assess whether or not their feedback is going to land how they want it to
In some cases, we may deliver personalised, clear, intelligible feedback yet still find ourselves in difficulties. Learners either ignore our feedback or simply don’t believe in it. In the latter…
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The not-so-secret pivot that flips feedback from useful to essential
Personalised feedback is feedback that is specific to the learner. This does not mean that it will always differ from the feedback other learners receive. For example, it is perfectly…
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How does feedback help teachers to raise achievement?
Good feedback tends to lead to good progress. As teachers, we are trying to do the best for our students. Feedback means we can give them access to our expertise.…
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The magic power of feedback to create purpose and increase learner effort over time
Feedback is an incredibly effective way to sustain learner purpose and target learners’ efforts. Let us imagine two classrooms. One in which no feedback is given, the other in which…
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Learn why all good feedback ultimately rests on what happens before
Eliciting information is an essential part of giving good feedback. Without an accurate understanding of where your learners are at, it becomes far harder to provide feedback that is relevant…