Unit Two: The Importance of Feedback
Learning Objectives
- Participants will be able to identify various means of input for feedback.
- Participants will be able to demonstrate delivery of feedback to others.
Why is Feedback Important?
To understand why feedback is an important tool for any classroom, please watch this video Giving & Receiving Feedback
Activity
Please review the following lesson titled Positive Posters In this lesson, students create a community of feedback for other students in the class. After looking at the lesson, do you agree that feedback can be beneficial in most environments? When do you think feedback should be given? Feedback that is given immediately provides gratification and direction for students when they most need it. If you wait a week to give back a test with helpful critiques on it, the students have already moved past that lesson into another one. But if you go over the test the next day and review what questions were missed, students have the ability to help themselves by reinforcing what they do know and asking questions about things they don't. You, as the teacher, are giving them encouragement to ask questions , showing that they are in control of their learning as much as you are.
Delivery of Feedback
How many ways are there to give feedback in a classroom? Apple now has a wonderful app that allows feedback during presentations and classwork to see how to change the students way of learning.Please click on this link and view the videos that describe how the app works. [Formative Feedback] Using tools like iPads in a classroom can be very beneficial as students are the "star" in the videos and can give their own feedback on what they feel can be improved upon.Some schools do not have the financial capability to provide iPads to classrooms, therefore teachers have to rely on verbal and written forms of feedback.
During a lesson, you can deliver immediate feedback by making suggestions, reinforcing strategies and skills that the student is doing well on. A way to deliver feedback is to write more than just a grade on a homework assignment or test, by adding a comment on how the student did some part of the assignment well will help create a more engaged student.
Please review this site for an additional resources about feedback.[1]
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