THOUGHTFUL CLASSROOM PROFESSIONAL LEARNING SUITES
A Professional Learning Suite
Using Feedback to Advance Student Learning
Tools and strategies for putting the research on feedback to work in every classroom
Featuring Dr. Harvey Silver, today’s leading expert on instructional tools and strategies
Is feedback fueling improvement in your classroom?
Feedback is one of the surest ways to raise student achievement. But the benefits of feedback are only realized when feedback is informed by research‐based principles. This online learning suite walks you through the key principles that make the difference between feedback that falls flat and feedback that fuels real improvement. More important, it presents a set of easy-to-implement feedback tools teachers can use immediately to put the principles to work in the classroom.
This powerful online suite is about more than how to give students better feedback. It will help you create what the renowned education researcher John Hattie calls a “feedback culture” where students understand clearly what they are aiming for, develop a growth mindset as they work toward their goals, and are able to use feedback and self‐assessment to advance their learning.
What Tools & Strategies Will I Find In This Suite?
Research Overview and Principles
- A guided review of the most current research on feedback, plus a set of research-based principles and recommendations for providing effective feedback
Micro-Tools for Providing Feedback
- Glow & Grow: Focuses students’ attention on what they’ve done well and how they can make their work better
- What & Why Feedback: Highlights the reasoning behind feedback so students better understand what quality work looks like and how they can produce it
- The Ps to Better Work: Uses different types of feedback to motivate students to improve the quality of their work
A Framework for Improving In-Lesson Verbal Feedback
- The Five Cs of In-Lesson Feedback: A simple framework for providing feedback and helping students deepen learning in real time
Teaching Students How to Give and Receive Feedback
- Knee-to-Knee Conference: Gives students the opportunity to hear their own work read back to them and collaborate with their peers to improve it
- PEERS: Teaches students how to review fellow students’ work, provide constructive feedback, and use feedback from their partner to improve their own work
PLUS:
- Practical resources to help teachers and PLCs plan, reflect, and analyze student work.
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