Empower student experts to provide peer feeback

What is Feedback?

In small groups, discuss your ideas of feedback and let's build a list together

What does good feedback look like?

Good feedback:

• timely
• specific
• offers both positive and constructive responses
• provides strategies for future learning
• encourages growth

How do we provide feedback?

Feedback can be given in many ways:

• in writing
• in 1:1 conferences
• in small groups
• as a whole class
• using technology like Google Docs comments, voice comments on Voxer or Google hangouts

How can good feedback improve learning?

learning improves when Students

• know what they are doing well
• know where they need to improve
• goals can be set based on the feedback provided that can be tracked
• strategies are given to aid in improvement
• reflection is done to continually monitor progress on particular skills
• Students are taught to track progress

Students can track feedback by

• making a section in the notebook where they write all feedback
• Electronically catalog their feedback and make action plans

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Consider the following student reflection:
http://bit.ly/1Nrvg37

Do you have any questions?

Remember:

• Specific to the task
• balance between positive and critical
• avoid using vague, comments like "this is good"
• Offer strategies where appropriate
• Notice improvement where appropriate
• Don't repeat the same comment all over the assignment, be tactful with how much you provide... Think Goldilocks

How can you take it to the next level?

How do we do that?

• Cultivate expert groups
• Empower leadership to provide specific feedback (newspaper example)
• Writing workshop with peer feedback

Cultivate expert groups

• decide salient skills
• select appropriate students
• train group accordingly
• workshop

peer to peer learning empowers learners

Let's read and annotate

Different learners need different things

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