TEACHER STANDARDS

High-Impact Verbal Feedback in Primary Classrooms: Strategies for Precision and Progress

Do you want to improve your verbal feedback strategies in primary classrooms? This course explores the theory and practical application of effective verbal feedback and is designed to enhance your pedagogy and improve pupil outcomes. Learn to deliver quality verbal feedback, explore specific strategies, embed routines, track progress and support pupils with SEND and EAL learners. Elevate your teaching and create a high-impact learning environment by boosting your verbal feedback practice.
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Adam Barrett,
Fiona Roberts & Carly Watkins

2 hours

Online Course

By completing this course, you will:

recognise what makes verbal feedback ‘quality’ in the context of primary teaching, linking it to learning intentions, success criteria and pupil progress;
explore specific feedback strategies to use across the curriculum;
consider routines for embedding verbal feedback into whole-class teaching and 1:1 interactions;
develop systems for tracking and revisiting verbal feedback, e.g. pupil response routines, visual cues, peer coaching, feedback logs;
examine how verbal feedback can raise expectations, build metacognition and support pupils with SEND through adaptive scaffolding.

Course Lessons

Written by: Adam Barrett

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Adam Barrett is an experienced teacher, academic and SENDCo. He has previously specialised in behaviour management, leading and reforming approaches to behaviour management in primary schools with the aim of creating inclusive environments for all. As well as a PGCE, Adam has an undergraduate degree in history and a MA in English literature.

Presented by: Fiona Roberts

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Fiona Roberts is a video content creator for the Twinkl CPD team. She has over 10 years experience as a primary school teacher and private tutor. Before completing her PGDE, Fiona also achieved an MA(Hons) in Film and Television Studies. She has previously supported the development of her school’s English curriculum and is particularly passionate about this subject. Fiona has also thoroughly enjoyed acting as a mentor to trainee teachers and early career teachers during her time in the classroom.

In collaboration with: Carly Watkins

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Carly Watkins has over twenty years of experience as a primary school teacher, including several years as an assistant headteacher, with responsibility for whole school curriculum development and overseeing pupil progress and attainment. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Education Practice and an NPQ in Leading Teacher Development.

Carly has been a mentor for both student and Early Career Teachers and currently facilitates the Early Career Framework for ECTs and their mentors, delivering training at conferences and via online seminars. At Twinkl PD, Carly heads up pedagogical professional development, a role which means she can support educators to develop their personal practice and pedagogy, something she is passionate about, on a national scale.