feedback policy

May 16 2015

Whole School Feedback Policy

The Confident Teacher / By Alex Quigley / 5 minutes of reading

(Image based on the Education Endowment Foundation Toolkit findings) All the evidence tells us that great feedback works. Simple. Let’s do more of that and all of our students will gain…easy! And yet, what do we mean by feedback? What does great feedback look like in the classroom? Too often the notion of feedback is …

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Feb 9 2013

Make your ‘Marking Policy’ a ‘Feedback Policy’

Uncategorized / By Alex Quigley / 8 minutes of reading

Marking workload getting on top of you? Many schools, and departments, have been reflecting about their marking policies ever since OFSTED declared more than a healthy interest in scrutinising books. Progress over time has rightly been identified as more important than single lesson snap shots – of course, that evidence if best found in ongoing …

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