Expert Feedback with Professor John Hattie

What every leader should know about feedback

John-Hattie John Hattie

The Problem: 1 in 3 feedback interactions have a negative impact. Most schools have no way of knowing if their feedback is driving student progress or causing staff burnout.

In this masterclass, Professor John Hattie bridges the gap between teacher effort and student outcomes:

  • Discover why feedback succeeds or fails – and how to make it consistently high impact.
  • Implement AI-enhanced feedback models that improve impact while reducing workload.
  • Build a school-wide feedback culture rooted in trust, openness and sustainable improvement.
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£385.00 + VAT

£20.00 discount for additional delegates

Description

A Two-Session Masterclass for School Leaders

Discover why feedback works and why so it often doesn’t

  • Identify why 1 in 3 feedback interactions have a negative impact
  • Explore how the same feedback can accelerate confidence and action in some learners and create caution, disengagement or inertia in others
  • Examine Abercrombie’s anatomy of judgement and why emotional responses determine whether feedback is accepted or rejected
  • Understand the impact of power relationships within classrooms and organisations

Build relational trust and openness to learning

  • Implement a clearer, system-wide approach to improving feedback quality and consistency
  • Reduce staff workload through smarter, more purposeful feedback design
  • Generate stronger staff engagement and learner responsiveness to feedback

A new model of feedback

  • Simple frameworks for improving feedback dialogue in classrooms
  • Practical ways to monitor whether feedback is actually being acted on
  • Strategies to build feedback literacy across staff and students
  • Use a practical model of AI-enhanced feedback already shaping school systems

Close the loop between teacher and student with the feedback dialogue

  • Faster improvement in teaching and learning across the school
  • Build a stronger culture of trust, openness and professional dialogue
  • Implement feedback that consistently leads to visible action and measurable progress
  • Build readiness for the future of feedback, including responsible AI use

Course Dates

Session 1 – 11th January 2027

Session 2 – 1st February 2027

Course Timetable

Day 1:

8:00am

Old Models vs New Model

11th January 2027

  • What have we learnt from the older models over the past 80 years
  • The power of feedback: The costs of feedback
  • Feedback in the current classroom: From teacher to student, and how students interpret feedback
  • The best feedback models today

Day 2:

8:00am

An AI enhanced model of feedback

1st February 2027

  • Closing the loop between teacher and student: The feedback dialogue
  • The promise and opportunities of an AI-enhanced model of feedback
  • The GPS model of AI-feedback and how you can use some of this feedback now
  • The new guiding stars; relational trust and openness to learning

Speaker Summary

John-Hattie
John Hattie
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John Hattie is an internationally acclaimed education researcher. He is recognised as a master at figuring out what helps students to learn. He has won awards for services to education. The author of 14 books and the director of the research institute at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Professor Hattie is an entertaining and enthusiastic speaker.

Additional information

Date

11th January 2027, 1st February 2027
Course Type

Leadership & Management
Job Title

Event Options

Two Session Masterclass