Activity Resource 2a: Features of feedback

Effective feedback has a range of specific features that follow from its focus on recognising where pupils are with their learning and how to identify the next steps in their learning. The table here outlines these and articulates how these features might appear in a music lesson.

When you have reflected on these features and how they can be used in music teaching, use Task 2 to analyse the extent to which they are already part of your lessons, and how your department can develop wider use of feedback strategies.

Task 2: Developing practice in the classroom (60 minutes)
Ask a colleague to observe your use of feedback in two or three lessons that require pupils to learn through a variety of interrelated performing, composing, reviewing and evaluating activities. You can give the colleague a copy of the key features of effective feedback, to use as a guide to inform their observation. Agree in advance the specific focus for observation so that your discussion afterwards concentrates on these areas. Discuss or analyse when feedback has been given, and which of the features outlined in the table are strongest and which aspects require some development. Reflect on the findings, and use the last section of Appendix 1: Oral and written feedback 51kb to consider how practice can be developed to include more positive use of feedback in a wider range of situations. Agree how this will be incorporated into future work this term.

Task 2: Developing practice in the classroom (60 minutes)

Ask a colleague to observe your use of feedback in two or three lessons that require pupils to learn through a variety of interrelated performing, composing, reviewing and evaluating activities.

You can give the colleague a copy of the key features of effective feedback, to use as a guide to inform their observation. Agree in advance the specific focus for observation so that your discussion afterwards concentrates on these areas.

Discuss or analyse when feedback has been given, and which of the features outlined in the table are strongest and which aspects require some development.

Reflect on the findings, and use the last section of Appendix 1: Oral and written feedback Microsoft Word 51kb to consider how practice can be developed to include more positive use of feedback in a wider range of situations.

Agree how this will be incorporated into future work this term.

KS3 Music

Activity Resource 2a: Features of feedback