Ep 232: Effective Student Feedback
New Teacher Talk tackles something every teacher pours hours into and often watches go to waste: feedback. Hosts Dr. Beth Wilkins and Dr. Anna Quinzio-Zafran welcome Dr. Aletha Williams, a program manager and educator development coach, to help you design feedback students will actually pick up and use, instead of the kind that gets skipped on the way to the grade.
Aletha names the problem plainly. When students flip straight to the grade and file the assignment away, the comments you wrote never change their thinking, and feedback that does not change thinking or work is not really feedback…
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