Specific guidance on how to give feedback
not only improves the grading of the
feedback it also promotes a supportive
Learning Community.
making final assignment decisions are simple techniques
that can be particularly helpful during the significant
disruption of the pandemiccan be low tech products such
as study guides created in Google or Google Slides or more
sophisticated culminating assignments.
7. Give Targeted Feedback
Feedback is one of the most important contributions
teachers can make to student learning (Hattie and Timperly,
2007). The following are tips that teachers may consider
in giving feedback intended to increase learners drive to
improve performance and help teachers manage their
workload effectively:
a. Separate feedback and precise grading. Teachers will
want to focus feedback efforts on smaller assignments
and drafts when students are still developing their
understanding and skills. Detailed grading can be
reserved for major, culminating assignments or exams.
b. When the teacher takes time to prove feedback it is
worth taking the additional step of creating an activity
or assignment that asks students to review and reflect
on the feedback with the goal of identifying priorities for
their attention and improvement on future assignments.
c. Peer feedback offers another strategy to provide timely
feedback. Students gain insights from reviewing other
students worth that can improve their ability to assess
their own performance.
d. Specific guidance on how to give feedback not only
improves the grading of the feedback it also promotes
a supportive Learning Community. Bill Hart Davidson
of Michigan State University offers this framework as a
simple structure on how to give peer feedback.
Describe – Say what you see on a reader
Evaluate – Explain how the text meets or doesn’t meet
criteria established in the prompts.
Suggest – Offer concrete advice for improvement.
8. Recognizing Existing Strategies and New Challenges
One of the sectors of the society that has been affected and
challenged by this pandemic is Education. The disruption
has created instability, stress and anxiety among the
stakeholders of the teaching – learning community.
As we face the challenges of a new landscape in the
educational parlance, educators must discover without
ceasing new ways of delivering their lessons and making
learning fun, easy and welcoming without sacrificing quality,
productivity and sense of community.
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