Ideas on focused and manageable feedback & self-assessment

1. Ideas on focused and manageable feedback & self-assessment Kevin Dodd Kibblesworth PS

2. Spelling & punctuation • Make these part of long term targets • Monitor spelling & punctuation as part of marking (but do not mark) • Remind pupils as appropriate of these targets • If you are concerned that standards are slipping, include them as success criteria

3. Marking Focus– Time Management • Discuss the marking process with pupils • Make it clear you will not be marking everything, but you will be checking for problems or certain Success Criteria • Skim pupils’ work in exercise books • Identify problems/misconceptions in exercise books • Put books in different piles according to understanding (eg traffic light: 3 piles) • Write your “closing the gap” comments on the board and deal with the problem orally in the lesson or feed back orally to the group who have problems • This is especially good for Maths

4. Marking – oral and written • Select one group (in turn) for quality marking • Give some oral feedback to these pupils in the lesson • Follow this up with written feedback after the lesson • Insist on pupils making a written response to your marking in the next lesson

5. Self Assessment – KS1 • Pupils decide whether their work on mini whiteboards has met success criteria or not • Do this in pairs or get teaching assistant to help a group • Pupils traffic light their work or use

6. Self Assessment – KS1/2 • Pick a concept/problem that pupils may have a problem with (eg division) • Put a velcro board on the wall • Pupils place their symbol at the place where they think they are in their understanding/success

7. Division Getting there Having problems Understand it Linda Lee Gavin

8. Can you foresee any problems with this system?