I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.
– Elon Musk
We all want our students to grow. In reality, keeping up with providing feedback for learning can be a daunting task. This week we will examine strategies and tools to increase efficiencies within the feedback process. Please let us know if you try a strategy, or have a different feedback strategy you would recommend.
Today we look at three ways to streamline feedback.
- Common Misconceptions – Do you find yourself interacting on a discussion board or assignment and writing the same feedback over and over?
- Consider giving whole-group feedback with examples and ask students to identify and make improvements to resubmit or use for the next assignment.
- Create a document for reusable common comments and paste in the comments that are specific to each student’s next step.
- Use a number/color-coded system to identify where errors are being made on individual assignments. Send whole group feedback identifying improvement areas dependent upon the annotations located on the corresponding assignment.
- Process Mistakes – Consider pulling student examples and explaining what you are seeing in the submitted responses. Here is an example used to help increase depth in discussion board posts.
- Powerup Rubrics – Add links to stated criteria sharing exemplars and additional resources to help students understand expectations or get “unstuck”. Click HERE to see an example Serena Comegys created for her ELA 10 research papers.
There is no one perfect way to give feedback, but having quick strategies in your toolbox will help you personalize the learning experience for your students.
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