How do we use feedback effectively in the teaching and learning cycle?
In episode 24, the Teacher Takeaway team discuss a range of key components and practices that support effective feedback, including:
Purpose of Feedback
Feedback gives clear direction for everyone and helps to demystify the learning process for learners. It helps both the students and teacher to understand what was done well and where learning needs to head next for each student as it relates to the learning intention and the outcomes in the syllabus.
The feedback process is about 'closing the gap' in learning. As teachers we need to know where students are and where they need to be, and feedback is part of the journey to achieving this in line with the intended learning intention and success criteria. Linking feedback back to the learning intention and success criteria ensures that your feedback is specific, and is linked to the focus of the learning session. Feedback is really imporant for teachers as well, as it supports our ability to be critically reflective on our own teaching processes. Eliciting feedback from students throughout the teaching and learning cycle supports teachers as they seek to understand their impact on student learning. Three Major Feedback Questions
There are three major questions that drive feedback and each question is supported by a number of practices and processes.
Where Am I Going?
Feedback needs to be short, timely and specific. We know that this has the most impact on student learning, especially when it is directly linked to the success criteria. Levels of Feedback
Person-based feedback:
Self: involves praise as well as criticism, focused entirely on personality traits, does not include information on the learning process - "Good job." Performance-based feedback: Task: performance-based, provides learners with information about the product of learning. Process: performance-based, provides learners with information about the process they used to complete learning. Self-regulation: performance-based, provides learners with information about the mechanisms they apply to regulate their learning. Feedback that focuses on tasks, processes and student self-regulation is the most effective. Examples of Classroom Practice
There's a right way and a wrong way to deliver the same message. Sometimes it's not what we say but how we say it. Further Reading:
Want to read further about effective feedback? Perhaps start with these papers and books.
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AuthorsThe Teacher Takeaway Podcast is hosted by four Australian teachers and school leaders. With a wealth of industry knowledge and expertise, Aaron Johnston, Alice Vigors, Rebecca West and James Gray bring all the elements of effective pedagogical practice to the fore in a light-hearted way. These show notes are a summary of each episodes discussion with some added gems for you to takeaway. Happy reading everyone. Archives
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