My thoughts on feedback...

Providing feedback can be taxing on students and teachers alike, so it is important to take a few things into account in order to make it as effective as possible. Making our feedback immediate not only helps us teachers, it is beneficial for students. I also strongly believe that we need to build students capacity for self and peer assessment. There is only one of us in the room in classes of 20 to 35 students. We hopefully have enough time to provide some type of formative feedback during the lesson to most students, but students and their peers can do this multiple times throughout the lesson if they are equipped with the skills to do so. Not only is self assessment a crucial academic skill, it is a crucial life skill. I also think that feedback doesn't have to necessarily be writing on students work to give back to them. It can be instructional changes, new ideas, technology incorporation, differentiation and much more.