1. Providing Effective Feedback to Students
STUDENT FEEDBACK SESSION 4
Providing Effective Feedback to Students

2. “The feedback students give teachers can be more powerful than the feedback teachers give students.”
CRIS TOVANI 2

3. Objectives:
Enhance capacity to provide students with feedback on core areas of growth
Support students in monitoring and reflecting on their own learning 3

4. Reflect:
As you listen to the facilitator’s thought process on giving written feedback, consider:
What would you highlight for feedback? Why? 4

5. Feedback Best Practices
Provide small, simple next steps
Support students in setting challenging goals
Connect feedback to prior work
Highlight the strengths of the student’s work
Focus feedback on evidence of student’s skills and their use of strategies
Focus feedback on evidence of student’s self-regulation
Focus feedback on the task in a way that leads to feedback on skills/strategies and self-regulation
Ensure that the student has a clear understanding of the learning target
Focus feedback on tangible evidence in the student work
Ensure that the feedback interaction promotes trust and collaboration 5

6. Compare Against Best Practices:
Where do you see feedback best practices in what the facilitator described?
What additional ideas and suggestions do you have based on the best practices? 6

7. Review and Revise Written Feedback:
Read the study essay, sample written feedback, and sample conference feedback.
Use the Feedback Best Practices and Prompts to revise and improve the teacher’s feedback based on what you know about effective feedback. 7

8. Discuss Revisions:
How did the written and conferencing feedback align to Best Practices?
What opportunities did you see for more or different practice?
How would it feel to get the feedback as a student?
How does the revised feedback compare to your own feedback to students? 8

9. Apply to Student Work:
Plan written and oral feedback tied to the student work you brought 9

10. Explain and Debrief:
Explain one of the pieces of feedback you drafted and why.
What successes or challenges have you and your students experienced with feedback?
What are the implications of today’s learning for our school? 10

11. Learning Wrap-Up
How do your takeaways compare to the session’s Learning Objectives?
How were these objectives addressed today?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Enhance capacity to provide students with feedback on core areas of growth
Support students in monitoring and reflecting on their own learning 11

12. What’s next?
Explore
additional practice with enhancing feedback to students
Learn more about
how to craft strong developmental sequences of skills
the characteristics of effective feedback
how to incorporate one-to-one conferences into classroom instruction
strategies for tracking individual student progress across class periods
strategies for using feedback to inform further instruction 12