How can we help every student improve?

Responsive teachers help students improve their work. Effective feedback relies on a good task, students knowing how to succeed and teachers knowing how students are doing. Feedback can target the task, subject or self-regulation or, most effectively, focus on more than one of these. Feedback needs to be clear and comprehensible for students. Students need to believe feedback is for their benefit. We can ask students to take more responsibility for their feedback and limit what we provide to support this. We can reduce our marking by targeting and standardising it and by providing students with guidance without marking their work individually.