Such a simple concept that is both time saving for teachers, yet informative for students. Set an assessment/test/homework and return it to the students with feedback but no marks or grades, just comments, questions posed or circled aspects to focus on. Give students time to act on the feedback before giving them results.
Maximise simple opportunities to enable students to ‘uplift’ or improve targeted aspects of their work or skills. Encourage them to ‘steal’ ideas from others, also to celebrate and share their strengths purposefully. Please see examples below for variations. Uplifting learning
This concept is based on the principle that giving peer feedback is more productive than receiving it because it is more cognitively engaging. Students are trained to provide constructive critique to peers. Partnerships are based on strengths, areas for developments, NOT friendship groups, NOT who they usually work with. Critical buddies can be grouped (2 pairs …
Invent and embed easy to use systems so that common misconceptions are shared to the whole class and given students the opportunity to take ownership for addressing them. (either individually or as a class) Common misconceptions
Use various ways to create opportunities for students to reflect on their learning and targets over time. Some of these simple visuals, charts and walls can helps how students which aspects of their learning are strengths and which are areas for further focus. Target Setting Wall GCSE skills Visual targets
Use these cards to reward children for using target language within MFL lessons or just for subject specific vocabulary. Additionally chatty mats can contain regularly used phrases and sentence starters to help students feel more confident in articulating their learning in class. Target Language cards
Use this version of talk like an expert to develop students’ oracy and assess their accuracy as well as spelling of key words. Talk like an expert Language for Learning
A great technique to get children to work on improving the quality of their responses by improving a sentence either together or on their own. See below for two versions, one with a points system attached to focus on subject specific terminology. Uplifting sentences
Use these stickers in class to help build resilience in our students. This helps students reflect on their learning and learn from mistakes.
An app where students can share their understanding by answering formative assessment questions in a variety of formats: quizzes, quick question polls, exit tickets and space races.