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Creating a Culture of Feedback
Because of the importance placed on high-stakes evaluations, schools have built cultures that greatly emphasize grading. In this book, the authors urge educators to shift their classroom focus, prioritizing effective feedback over grades. Discover how to state learning intentions clearly and provide individualized feedback to give students all the information they need to succeed.
Benefits
- Gain instructional strategies for prioritizing feedback over grading in upper elementary, middle, and high school classrooms.
- Shift classrooms from a culture of grading to a culture of feedback.
- Discover how important feedback is to developing learners.
- Determine the characteristics of effective feedback.
- Learn the benefits of having students engage in peer feedback.
- Gain guidance on communicating the differences between grading and feedback to parents and students.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: One Really Competitive Skill
Chapter 1: Where Am I Going?
Chapter 2: How Am I Doing?
Chapter 3: What Are My Next Steps?
Conclusion
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 1
- Identifying Essential Learning Targets
- My Not Yet / You Bet List
- Student Learning Card: Metric Units
- Student Learning Card: Pointer Power
- Unit Overview Sheet: Northern Europe
- Unit Overview Sheet: Scientific Method
- Unit Overview Sheet: Understanding Persuasive Text
Chapter 2
- High and Low Comparison Task: Paper Towel Lab Conclusions
- Need to Have / Nice to Have Activity: Criteria for a Good Persuasive Essay
- Persuasive Essay Example
- Revise It Once / Revise It Again Activity: Paper Towel Lab Reflection Sheet
Chapter 3
- Feedback Form: Paper Towel Lab Bar Graph and Table
- Next Steps Reflection Sheet: Matter Unit
- Next Steps Reflection Sheet: New Unit
- Reflection Checklists: Paper Towel Lab
- Secret Agent Code Name Chart for Unit on Fractions
- Unit Overview Sheet: Scientific Method
Conclusion
- Classroom Feedback Survey: Parents
- Classroom Feedback Survey: Students
- Feedback Practice Inventory
- Parent Overview Sheet: Back-to-School Night
- Staff Development Overview Sheet: The Characteristics of Meaningful Feedback
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
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