Differentiated feedback allows students to receive targeted feedback based on their individual needs. Teachers can have students self-assess and request specific feedback, use codes that students must interpret, accept student questions via sticky notes, and provide feedback through questions to stretch thinking. Teachers can also group students based on areas for improvement to focus guidance and facilitate peer support.

1. Sharing Teaching and Learning Ideas
Half Term Three Focus: Differentiation
Key Idea: Differentiated feedback
Ways you can do this in your classroom:
• Students self or peer assess their work and then highlight a specific part they
would like close feedback on when you collect in their books to check them.
• Use codes in your marking and students need to ‘break the code’ to work out
what their strengths and improvements are. This could be linked to the success
criteria.
• Students use sticky notes to ask a question about something they were unsure
of when completing a task and this can be addressed in feedback.
• Use questions in your feedback to support and stretch students’ thinking.
• When responding to feedback, group students according to their improvements
so that they can support each other and you can provide focused guidance to
specific groups, where necessary.