Al Khatem School- Effective Feedback PD

Al Khatem School

​Professional Development

Effective Feedback

Training Objectives

• Describe what effective  purposeful feedback is and what it is not.

• Identify strategies and tools that makes feedback effective.

• Understand how to implement effective feedback strategies to determine the necessary skills the learner needs for ongoing success in learning outcomes

• Explain the different types of feedback and when it can be used

​Training Starter Activity

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Effective Feedback Padlet

Share Your Thoughts

Vote for the post that best explains the importance of feedback.

Challenge

​Work in teams

Read the scenario

Discuss your answers

Make notes

Open Ended

Type the answers here

Question 1: What should Ms. McTeejay know in order to provide effective feedback to her 8th grade students?

Open Ended

Type the answers here

Question 2: What could Ms. McTeejay do to help her students better understand where they are, where they are going, and what they need to do to get there?

Match

What feedback should be.......

Match the term to the best explanation

• "What worked well?" 

  "What needs improvement?"

• Emphasize what could be done differently next time versus what was done "wrong" this time.

• The most effective feedback is immediate and frequent.

• Look for the good while still focusing on future solutions.

Specific

Actionable

Timely

Respectful

• Specific

• Actionable

• Timely

• Respectful

Maximizing the Power of Feedback

Group Discussion

1. Study the diagrams

2. Now review the four characteristics of good feedback

3. What feedback would you give your students to him to improve their diagrams

4. Time: 3mins

5. Share your feedback

In Review - What is feedback?

Feedback is a form of information provided by the Teacher to the student about as task, test or activity regarding the  student's performance.

In Review - What is feedback?

Feedback in the classroom comes in many forms:

•       a word

•       a gesture

•       an emoticon

•       a facial expression

•       a written comment

•       a mark

•       a grade or level

In Review - Importance of Feedback

Feedback should be used as a basis for improvement.
Feedback is an essential component of effective change, and therefore improvement, and one of the roles of an educator is to seek to improve things.

In Review - Importance of Feedback

Feedback helps students to understand:

• What they can change to get better results

• The rate of progress towards a goal

• What needs to happen to improve relationships

• Whether something is worth doing

• How well we are doing

• What others think of us or how they value us

• Our level of performance against a target

Teacher Feedback

Think-Pair-Share

Why do you think teacher obervation in important?

To the teacher

To the student

What is the value of feedback after a lesson observation:

For the teacher

For the student

When recieving feedback

Do you reflect on the feedback?

What actions do you take in line with the feedback you have recieved?

Multiple Choice

When is the most effective time to give feedback?

• Within 3 weeks of completion

• Immediately

• Within 24 hours

• When you get time

Multiple Choice

Effective descriptive feedback does not...

• focus on the intended learning

• identify strengths and areas of improvement

• suggests a route of action students can take

• give a final grade

Multiple Choice

What type of feedback is most useful?

• General

• Specific

Multiple Select

Why is it important to give feedback to students?

(More than 1 answer)

• It helps learners deepen their understanding.

• It boosts motivation to improve.

• It makes learners inefficient and lazy.

• It enhances learning and improves assessment performance.

Multiple Choice

Which of this is NOT a characteristic of Effective Feedback?

• Purposeful

• Clear

• Meaningful

• Gentle

Multiple Select

Can you identify which ones are specific feedback?

Illustration.(More than one answer.)

• You can do better.

• I believe that your code would be more legible if you commented the last lines.

• Great job! Your code looks really good.

• Thank you for helping the IT team to meet the deadline of the project last Thursday.

Poll

Why should a student know how he/she is progressing in the learning process? Choose the one that is most reflective of your thinking process.

• It helps students to determine if they are on the right track.

• It allows students to identify areas of weaknesses and work on improving those areas.

• It inspires students to become self motivated.

• It gives students a deeper understanding of the concept that they are learning.

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