I would like to begin with the topic of Effective Feedback as a learning and teaching tool.

Reference the book by Susan M. Brookhart

How to Give Effective To Your Students ~ 2nd edition, ASCD, Learn Teach Lead, Alexandria, VA.

Questions by Susan M. Brookhart

Answers by Dr. Christopher Chandler

1. How do you approach written feedback? How do you choose the words you write on students’ work?
   According to most teachers they frame written comments, for example what kind of discourse should be used. How many comments should they provide to students. In large classes it is often difficult for teachers to engage large class sizes with across the board written feedback. Feedback dialogue even in these situations must be carefully formulated and applied so that students gain instructive value from the teachers written comments. In a consistent way teachers must use a choice of words that illuminate the message that the teacher is trying to convey to the students. To speak to the students not over them in a patronizing manner.
2. Where do you write on students’ work? Do you mostly summarize, or mostly make comments at specific points in the work, or do you use a combination?
   The constant theme that runs through a teachers day is that the day does not begin and end with the class bell. With this said the teacher must be careful to write feedback in the margins of a students work so as to be instructive and make the point of the feedback exactly where the student needs to read it. In this way the feedback seems natural and as a tool to learn from. Depending upon the type of students work that is being reviewed for feedback, teachers must be careful to articulate the feedback points precisely where they are needed. In this way the student is not confused or develops misconceptions or misinformation about the topic.
3. How do your students respond to the written feedback you give?
   Generally students receive feedback notes as a corrective procedure. it the teacher has established themselves as the expert in the field and has earned the respect and confidence from the student there will not be a problem in students response to feedback.
4. Do you ever as teacher use rubrics as a vehicle for giving feedback? If so, describe a typical way you do that and some typical student responses.
   Absolutely ,a rubric is a very good technique to use as a vehicle for giving feedback. Students are familiar with rubrics that teachers use on the High School level of teaching. The best way to introduce a rubric is to discuss the rubric before or as the assignment is handed out.
5. What information in this chapter has you thinking about your own feedback to students? Based on this chapter, what would you like to try in your classroom to increase the effectiveness of your feedback?
   As a certified teacher I constantly think about my classes and students. How to use differentiated instruction to reach students who are lagging behind the general class and not to lose them in the context of the overall semester of teaching. I introduce new vocabulary terms ( Marzano -6 step program) in order to make sure that students are following the lecture and instruction I develop lesson plans that closely align with the learning objectives of the class and the State of Georgia Standards of learning.

Source: by Dr. Christopher D. Chandler | Dean of Genesis University

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