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Every little helps
Changing your feedback culture can feel overwhelming, but effective feedback can have a significant positive impact on your pupil outcomes. Getting it right also may help you to reduce your teachers' workload, like how one 'outstanding' secondary school cut its marking workload by 75%.
You can achieve these things even if you only make small changes here and there. You might even find that some changes happen organically once you help teachers and leaders think differently about marking.
Read on to find out more about how you might optimise the approach to feedback in your school. You can choose from the methods outlined here if they'll help you meet your goals, or find something that works better for your context with these considerations in mind.
Giving feedback means giving pupils