The only guarantee you get from the job of teaching is that you will learn and fail. The trick – well, doing a little more learning than failing, whilst trying …
Whole School Feedback Policy
(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 …
Questioning and Feedback: Top Ten Strategies
As part of our whole staff training at Huntington School we have been sharing ideas and collating ‘Top Ten Strategies’. This list is the fruits of our labour: 1. Differentiated questioning. …
One-to-one Feedback & Testing What Works
Feedback has always been all the rage! In all my years of teaching I think I know instinctively the things that make the difference to learning. Once such tipping points …
Explanations: Top 10 Teaching Tips
“There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced …
Questioning and Oral Feedback – Our ‘Bread & Butter’
A few weeks ago I had the great pleasure to present to the staff of my school for just over an hour on teaching and learning. My session, in the …
Make your ‘Marking Policy’ a ‘Feedback Policy’
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. …
Oral Formative Feedback – Top 10 Strategies
Quite simply, effective teaching hinges on oral formative feedback and questioning on a lesson by lesson basis. It appears to me that the greatest benefit of experience that I observe in excellent …