What do I prioritize when I am giving students feedback? Great question! I would say that the most important characteristics of effective feedback would be... 1. Timely 2. Focused/ specific 3. Opportunity for correction Timely: feedback needs to be given while the information is still fresh in students' minds.…
When I think about the feedback that I value as a student, I always see clear questions that will guide me towards a path that will help me better my work. If I value clear, concise and helpful feedback then I can only expect that my students do too. For…
Feedback is an essential part of our life, not only in classrooms. We as people need to improve ourselves using the feedback from our community or who are around us. As teachers, we need to be sure about the quality of the feedback we may give our students and how…
Feedback is always a unique challenge - how much do we give? What do we prioritize? I'm always stuck at a crossroads when it's time to give feedback because I never know how much is the right amount. If I give too little, the student won&…
Feedback. Many different kinds of it exist in this world. Some of us hear feedback and think of that awful screech response from an improperly set up audio system. Others know feedback as a response from our body to a behavior or biochemical reaction. And then most of us think…
Chapter 4 (Part 1): Why is feedback important? Feedback has been known to be an important part of the learning process. Especially when coupled with deliberate practice, feedback can help students spend their time mastering aspects that they need to focus on most rather than practicing what they already know.…
For my capstone lessons I will be introducing the new unit on evolution. The lessons will be the first lessons of the unit and focus on orienting students while allowing them to start thinking with the mindset of this new unit. The objective I would like to focus on for…
Chapter 2: Part 1 - Making connections across lesson plans One objective from the lessons that I am planning is "I can describe how plants make food through photosynthesis and why this is important." One type of formative assessment that we will be doing is something called a…
Lessons from lessons. They all come together to help us grow in our ability to best serve our students and help them walk away with engaged, applied understanding of what we're trying to convey to them. Though it's not my capstone, all of my planning for…
The learning objective is the core of our lesson plan. We need to be very careful about creating it and then plan according to that objective. Here is the link to Zhou's Blog, which explains why it is crucial. https://learninginnovation.duke.edu/blog/2017/03/learning-objectives/ Back…
