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Tag: formative feedback
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Your judgement is the foundation on which all marking rests – and what this means for how to maximise the impact of your marking and minimise the time it takes to do it
When you mark learner work, you judge. Marking is judgement. As a teacher becomes more experienced, so they tend to mark more efficiently. This is largely because they have a…
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Unlock the power of marking as a communication tool for you and your learners
Marking communicates information to learners. Effective marking communicates the information the teacher wants to communicate and does so in a form that learners can access. Different types of information can…
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Five strategies any teacher can use when marking learners’ work to simply and easily track progress
Tracking progress means gaining a sound understanding of where learners are at and using this to measure change over time. This is why we have mark books (physical or digital)…
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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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If you don’t think you can do it, you’ll probably find you’re right. Why learner independence matters for feedback implementation.
Learner agency has a key role to play when it comes to ensuring feedback is effective. Promoting learner agency means promoting a sense that learners are in control of their…
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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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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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Why creating crystal clear clarity in your feedback means the effort you put in won’t be wasted
Learners must interpret the feedback we give. They need to make sense of it. If they can’t, then it becomes hard for them to use it. Opaque or unintelligible feedback…
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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…