Feedback is an essential component of any project. It provides students with opportunities to reflect on their work and make important revisions to propel them forward through the next phase. Feedback sends a message to the student that the teacher cares about the learning taking place. It also allows the student to become more engaged and involved in the classroom. When given correctly, feedback guides the student in their learning process and gives them the direction they need to reach the target or goal of the lesson, and increase learning and improve student outcomes. Giving is not receiving. Teachers may claim they give much feedback, but the more appropriate measure is the nature of feedback received. The fundamentals of formative feedback …show more content…
The feedback should be clear, useful , and specific. We need to tell students where they went wrong and how they can amend their work to attain higher grades in the future. For example, 'say more' may be ambiguous to a student, while 'you could strengthen your argument by making reference to ...' gives a clearer guideline for improvement. It is our intent to use constructive feedback to help our students develop their skills. Constructive feedback is information-specific, issue-focused, and based on concrete observation. We also need to give the feedback to students as soon as possible. The longer the delay, the less likely students will be to respond to it and the feedback is less effective. We can suggest a certain practice or strategy that could be improved to build student confidence and motivation. For me, I would like to choose a small number of errors and mark only these each time. Students will feel better able to handle and work on a small number of errors and are less likely to disengage from the …show more content…
Every lesson, I prepare the formative assessments for in class practice or as homework. And I try and structure my the assessments in a way that really force the kids to understand the importance of the feedback I give them, in terms of preparing them for these summative assessments. After an assignment is complete, students receive a +, =, or - as well as comments to help them improve. In addition, when they finish a unit, I can give them overall feedback, so they can use these to figure out where they would be in terms of meeting the standards, which are in the rubric. This feedback strategy enhances student achievement by highlighting progress. With progress feedback a student is given opportunities for checking-in with the teacher and ask questions. With progress feedback a student will be able to successfully self-monitor, have higher aspirations for further achievement, greater self-satisfaction, and higher performance overall. However, this feedback is considered to be time consuming process if they are followed on a monthly, weekly or daily basis. It is time and resource intensive, and in need of frequent gathering of data and analysis individual student's progress. Teachers have to check back the students' previous performance and provide effective and timely feedback to their students, but quickly see their
2.2 Seeking feedback to improve practice and inform development is important as it allows us to see our own practice from the perspective of others. It shows that we are able, and willing, to learn and listen to others, and also identify what areas we are doing well in, and what requires
In conclusion I feel that using effective assessment methods throughout any course allows tutors to give feedback at the right time to allow the correct progress for the learners to achieve. I have experienced feedback many times as coach and more recently as a teacher and feel it has only helped me to improve and to keep wanting to improve so I can inspire others to achieve.
In Feedback as a gift, Friedrich makes some good points about how to give and receive feedback.
Positive feedback also helps the students understand and not be as negatively affected when they receive feedback indicating things they need to work on. This allows the student to feel comfortable in the classroom and to enjoy receiving feedback. Provide informative feedback - This is essential to help the students understand what things they are doing incorrectly, while also allowing an opportunity to point out what things they are doing well. This is important as the student will have a visual to better understand the teacher’s feedback, which is something they may not have fully comprehended when receiving verbal feedback only.
When using exit slips to formatively assess my students, I would often have to wait until the next day to address misconceptions, struggles, and learning gaps because it took time to grade them. Or my students would have to wait as I graded them during class which used valuable class
There are many effective strategies that educators implement to provide positive feedback to the students in the classroom. As an educator, I have an infinite number of responsibilities in the classroom that I have to complete every day; for this reason, I am guilty of not providing enough positive feedback to my students so they can become better learners and reflect on their own progress. According to McCoy (2013), self-reflection provides opportunity for students to think about their own thinking and their own progress. One of the strategies that I have used in my classroom is providing feedback in a way that is educative in nature. For instance, when a student is doing an assignment, I praise him or her for doing a great job and focus more
Cooperative learning and feedback are also key strategies within this instructional unit. Students will use rubrics, a form of feedback, to observe each other’s performance. Students will then discuss the rubric with the peer observed in order to praise correct techniques demonstrated. Likewise, the use of this peer observation will allow students to have an insight the techniques they are displaying that are improper and offer advice on how to correct these errors.
The importance of constructive feedback allows for many positive opportunities. One important element is that feedback provides a foundation for positive student and teacher relationships. By providing appropriate feedback, the students understand the teacher is genuinely concerned about them and their education. This component also enhances a student’s self-efficacy and provides an avenue for motivation.
Receiving Feedback From Students and Parents Collecting feedback from both students and parents are an integral part of building a learning program that best serves the school. Teachers can use feedback to modify their strategies, methods or content or use feedback to gain an idea of where a student sees him/herself There are moves towards designing and "modifying reporting systems to more effectively communicate what students are learning and how well they are learning." (Lake, K & Kafka , K, 1996, p. 90) There are numerous and varied reporting and assessing systems being implemented all over the United States, but it should be noted that most new methods encourage a more parent and student feedback and/or involvement focus. An example of one such approach is being implemented in Mountainview Elementary School.
In this paper, I will be primarily focusing on the importance of feedback in learning. Practise is important to achieve goals but it cannot act alone, in order for a student to accomplish his/her goals he/she needs to practise; while practising it is important to receive feedback. By the end of this paper, I will try to prove why “Feedback is so important in learning”?
Feedback is one form of assessment that teachers think will take long, however, if given orally to the students it allows them to correct what they are misunderstanding or doing wrong. Most teachers feel that feedback is meant to be written down but it is not necessary to do so. Oral feedback as well as written feedback can be very effective and beneficial for a student if done correctly. According to Leahy et al (2005), “To be effective, feedback needs to cause thinking. Grades don 't do that. Scores don 't do that. And comments like “Good job” don 't do that either. What does cause thinking is a comment that addresses what the student needs to do to improve…” (p. 22). I felt that this quote was very fitting to what I did in the classroom while walking around and checking up on the students. Instead of saying “good job” or “looks good,” I found myself watching bits and pieces of several
We need to continuously assess and evaluate our students so we can set appropriate goals for each student and individual instructions. Each child learns different, so as a teacher we need to have different styles of teaching for positive reinforcement.
Students need feedback, clear expectations, and a schedule to follow throughout the day so that teachers spend less time directing behavior and more time is spent actively engaged in learning. There should be more time consumed on strengthening positive behavior and fewer on the negative.
Assessing student understanding is important but as a teacher you need to provide feedbacks to the students. During my lesson, I allowed the student to ask questions and tried to answer each individual’s answer right away. Since my students are not able to read or write I had to provide feedbacks by verbally.
The students will also be able to better evaluate themselves with immediate feedback and evaluation.