Feedback should be helpful and allow the learner to improve in a specific area to stretch and challenge their knowledge in a positive way.

• To guide improvement, detailing developmental feedback. This helps learners to understand their strengths and identify area's for improvement. This will support their overall holistic development.

• Encourages reflection

• Build motivation and confidence.

• Close learning gaps.

• Provides learners with both professional and personal growth.

• Provides individually tailored feedback.

• Supports the learner to understand criteria that they have or haven't met. And how to achieve this.

• Allows for a plan of action to be put into place to develop knowledge and skills and work towards evidencing this.

• To give specific, clear and informative guidance to expand on learning.

• Provides a clear plan of actionable suggestions which are intended to be helpful, supportive and promote growth.

• Provides a clear pathway into the learners personal progression.

• Creates structure of learning topics and aims for both the learner and assessor.

• Build's confidence and self esteem and motivates the learners.

• Tailored to the learner and is specific to the learners behaviour's.

• Feedback is given in a timely manner and documented in a variety of ways.

A practitioner is great at engaging with children but sometimes misses opportunities to encourage independence.

Feedback:

"I love how you get down to the children’s level and interact with them in such a warm, caring way, they clearly feel comfortable with you. One idea to build on this could be to give them more time to try things independently before stepping in to help. For instance, when setting up an art activity, you might encourage them to choose their own materials or try things on their own first. This can really build their confidence and sense of independence."

This feedback acknowledges the practitioner’s strengths and provides a clear, actionable idea that enhances children’s independence without diminishing the practitioner’s strengths.

While digital technology for recording feedback can be modernised. It also comes with limitations such as sampling biases, data overload, technical barriers, privacy concerns. Addressing these issues requires careful planning, improved tools for analysing feedback, and a balanced approach that combines digital feedback with other methods of engagement.

• Written feedback

• Verbal Feedback

• Monthly Reports

• Progress Reviews

• Following the TRACK model for trainers

• Setting SMART targets.

• Sandwich effect feedback.

• Being mindful of how learners interpret feedback being given.

• Using the tool Realise Assist.

• Learning Journal Feedback

This can be done through:

• OneFile Assist

• Chat GPT

• Verbal feedback on a recording

• Remote sessions with learners

  
  

• It makes the process more efficient, accessible and achievable.

• It helps both the assessor and learner to track progress more accurately.

• It is stored and recorded together in one place, making it more organised and accessible. This also makes it easily retrievable.