James Nottingham is co-founder and director of Challenging Learning, a group of companies with 30 employees in 6 countries. His passion is in transforming the most up-to-date research into strategies that really work in the classroom. He is regarded by many as one of the most engaging, thought-provoking and inspirational speakers in education.

His first book, Challenging Learning, was published in 2010 and has received widespread critical acclaim. Since then, he has written 6 books for teachers, leaders, support staff, and parents. These books share the best research and practice connected with learning; dialogue; feedback; the learning pit; early years education; and growth mindset.

Before training to be a teacher, James worked on a pig farm, in the chemical industry, for the American Red Cross, and as a teaching assistant in a school for deaf children. At university, he gained a first-class honours degree in education (a major turnaround after having failed miserably at school). He then worked as a teacher and leader in primary and secondary schools in the UK before co-founding an award-winning, multi-million-pound regeneration project supporting education, public and voluntary organisations across north east England.

Skolvärlden (Swedish Teaching Union) describes James as "one of the most talked about names in the world of school development" and the Observer newspaper in the UK listed him among the Future 500 - a "definitive list of the UK¿s most forward-thinking and brightest innovators."

List of Figures
The Challenging Learning Story
Foreword by Shirley Clarke
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
Contributors
Introduction
The Language of Learning
Chapter 1: Setting the Scene
1.0 Why Read Yet Another Book About Feedback?
1.1 What Is Feedback?
1.2 Assessment: To Sit Beside
1.3 Four Levels of Feedback
1.4 Matching Feedback to Levels of Understanding (Using the SOLO Taxonomy)
1.5 Praise vs. Feedback
1.6 Does Grading Count as Feedback?
1.7 Other Types of Feedback
1.8 Review
1.9 Next Steps
Chapter 2: Current Reality
2.0 What Is Your Feedback Like Now?
2.1 Characteristics of Excellent Feedback
2.2 Corrective, Component and Comprehensive Feedback
2.3 Extending Feedback
2.4 Review
2.5 Next Steps
Chapter 3: Creating a Culture for Feedback
3.0 Feedback Utopia
3.1 Ten Ways to Build Towards Feedback Utopia
3.2 Review
3.3 Next Steps
Chapter 4: Goals Before Feedback
4.0 Feedback Should Refer to Learning Goals
4.1 Long-Term and Short-Term Goals
4.2 Learning Intentions (LI) and Success Criteria (SC)
4.3 How to Design Effective LI and SC
4.4 Example LI and SC to Use With Five- to Eleven-Year-Olds
4.5 Example LI and SC to Use With Eleven- to Eighteen-Year-Olds
4.6 Learning Goals for Working Together
4.7 Review
4.8 Next Steps
Chapter 5: Taxonomies to Support Goal Setting
5.0 Learning How to Learn
5.1 Using Taxonomies Wisely
5.2 Bloom's Taxonomy (and Beyond)
5.3 The EDUCERE Taxonomy of Thinking Skills
5.4 The ASK Model
5.5 Footnote to Taxonomies: Beware!
5.6 Review
5.7 Next Steps
Chapter 6: Feedback and the SOLO Taxonomy
6.0 The SOLO Taxonomy
6.1 How the SOLO Taxonomy Relates to the Learning Challenge
6.2 How the SOLO Taxonomy Relates to Feedback
6.3 How the SOLO Taxonomy Relates to Learning
6.4 The SOLO Treehouse
6.5 Review
6.6 Next Steps
Chapter 7: Seven Steps to Feedback
7.0 Background
7.1 Using the Seven Steps to Feedback
7.2 The Seven Steps to Feedback: Some Final Thoughts
7.3 But There's No Time!
7.4 Review
7.5 Next Steps
Chapter 8: Tools for Feedback
8.0 Using the Learning Challenge to Generate Feedback Questions
8.1 Learning Challenge Feedback Questions: Stage 1
8.2 Learning Challenge Feedback Questions: Stage 2
8.3 Learning Challenge Feedback Questions: Stage 3
8.4 Learning Challenge Feedback Questions: Stage 4
8.5 Learning Detectives
8.6 Examples of Clues for Learning Detectives to Search For
8.7 Review
8.8 Next Steps and Further Reading
Repertoire and Judgement Notes
References
Index