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Marking, Feedback and Assessment

Unit two: Giving & Receiving Feedback

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Giving and using feedback

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Sharing ideas about what kinds of feedback work well

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Collect strategies from different subjects and ages of pupils. Say how you can apply other people’s ideas in your lessons.

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What can you do to help your pupils learn by looking critically at examples of work?

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What can you do to help your pupils learn to get what they’re doing right?

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What can you do to help your pupils learn by getting advice from different people?

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What can you do to help your pupils learn by having lots of feedback while they’re learning and practising?

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What can you do to help your pupils learn by having time and support to use their feedback?

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What can you do to help your pupils learn by seeing what they’re getting better at?

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Analysing feedback in action and prescribing for success

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Analysing feedback

View the work of Woodbury Down Community Primary School, Hackney, London.

What do the teachers and assistants do, and what do the pupils do, with good effect in terms of marking, feedback and assessment?

The next slide gives a format.

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Analysing feedback

Analyse feedback in lessons on the video, and make notes about actions.

(i) The teachers (ii) The pupils:and assistants:

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Analysing feedback

What do you do and what do your pupils do, when marking, feedback and assessment contribute well to teaching and learning?

Look at Handout 2.1 for prompts.

Prepare a statement.

The next slide gives a format.

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Analysing feedback

When marking, feedback and assessment are successful for us and for our pupils,

(i) we: (ii) and our pupils:

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Activities for effective assessments

How can you set up activities in lessons and for homework to include effective assessments?

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Activities for effective assessments

Choose a sequence of activities your pupils are going to go through in the near future. Focus on the marking, feedback and assessment you want your pupils to benefit from.

Handout 2.2 gives a format for you to record your planning.

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Activities for effective assessments

Be ready to share reflections with the group.

What will happen to help your pupils:

look critically at examples of work?

get what they’re doing right?

get advice from different people?

have lots of feedback while they’re learning and practising?

have time and support to use their feedback?

see what they’re getting better at?

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Activities for effective assessments

As a whole group, share your reflections about:

what currently helps you plan for productive feedback

what else might help you.

Record notes on your conclusions, to be used in a later training session.

The next slide gives a format.

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Activities for effective assessments

These things currently help us plan and use feedback effectively:

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These things could help us further:

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How can you and your pupils follow up on marking and feedback?

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Follow up on marking and feedback

Use Handout 2.1

In twos or threes discuss your current preferred ways of enabling your pupils to act on their feedback, and strategies you would like to develop.

Make notes for yourself. Share ideas as a whole group.

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Follow up on marking and feedback

Our current preferred methods for enabling our pupils to act on their feedback:

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Strategies we would like to try out as a way of enhancing our pupils’ learning:

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Follow up on marking and feedback

Evaluation and looking ahead.

What has gone well in this session?

Are there any matters to follow up?