Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Making Feedback Meaningful

In our recent blogs, Brooke and I have been providing you with lots of information on closure and formative assessments. The next logical question any teacher would ask themselves is: “Now what”?

After reviewing your students' reflections through a closure activity or looking at how did kids on a recent formative assessment you will want to be able to give them some meaningful, personalize feedback about their understanding and progress.

Today’s instructional tip comes from a Teaching Channel video called Making Feedback Meaningful. Sean McComb, a high school English teacher, provides strategies about how to give timely, differentiated and meaningful feedback to students. Although this is an ELA example, these strategies apply to all content areas.

In this powerful 10-minute video Mr. McComb presents these strategies:

- One on one conferencing

- Small group instruction on a targeted skill

- Use highlighting to limit time spent on writing feedback

- In a Google Doc, try using voice notes for feedback

- In Word, highlight and provide comments

One word of advice Mr. McCombs gives is try not to give too much feedback to students. Make them grapple with what they know and how your feedback will lead to their next steps. Giving students meaningful feedback very time consuming. These strategies will help you balance your work & home life along with giving kids the support they need from you.

As always, we welcome any suggestions for next week!

Bridget & Brooke

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