I have spent six hours of my life this week giving feedback lessons for the baseline tests. Luckily the year 7 ones drastically improved once I realised how genuinely confusing they all found feedback.
All my classes have WWWs (what went wells) and EBIs (even better ifs), learning questions and brightly highlighted learning ladders. They’ve all responded in green pen, answered my questions and corrected SPaG mistakes.
I know that this all looks great in their books. Ofsted loves it, and therefore so does my school.
Don’t get me wrong, I completely understand why feedback is important, and why giving students time to reflect is invaluable for their progress. However, my school’s policy means that these students spend an entire lesson responding to feedback so regularly, that their targets, WWWs and EBIs seem to be meaningless now.
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