A year ago, my school was consulting on a feedback policy and I had just joined Teaching Leaders as a Fellow. The Impact Initiative is a central part of the programme and I had decided to focus the outcome on improving levels of progress in year 10.
I was keen to harness the positive effect of feedback, and identified this as an area for focus. This has also had an impact on how we mark across the whole department. These are the key steps I undertook:
Middle leaders have a responsibility for making whole-school vision and policy work in their own area. I wanted our marking policy to have the greatest impact on pupils, while still being aligned to whole-school principles. We started by asking ourselves what we needed from feedback. What did we want the outcomes to be? What kind of feedback and what frequency would allow pupils to achieve their personal best?
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