In culture of learning, feedback is king. Supportive, respectful informative feedback is one that fosters reflection, understanding and motivation to develop. It trumps all marking systems, shifting attention from points/numbers/ letters that are little more than a value judgement, promoting growth mindset and acknowledging the learner's ownership of their learning process instead. Mastering the art of giving (and receiving!) feedback is a challenge, as quite often we are tempted to resort to the good old 'well done' or 'great job" as feedback. Such feedback is sadly useless- it tells the student nothing, just conveys some positive emotions. Instead, we need to feed forward, so provide an extensive, clear rubric for an activity and then deliver specific information on the strong points, as well as areas in need of improvement, suggesting ways in which such improvement can be made. One idea to give feedback is the ladder of feedback, where step by step we build a th...