Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Feedback in a timely manner
Well, what can one do with a snow day! My answer was to continue reading the Feedback book. I was reading about the importance of giving feedback right away. I think I am suffering the a good case of the guilties. It is so difficult for me to get papers/projects back to students the very next day. With the types of products that I require, giving feedback to 54 papers and project overnight is not possible if I want it to be quality. It does remain my goal, however, to get simple constructed responses back to students within two days of completion. I have been better at achieving my goal in the last 3 months. Sometimes, I am just overwhelmed with the written work. In order to follow the standards and truly incorporate a differentiated teaching practice, I feel that cutting back doesn't do the students justice. Nevertheless, I'll keep trying to give feed back in a timely manner.
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Marcy,
ReplyDeleteGiving timely, quality feedback on written work (54 papers) is challenging. I used to dread the quantity of formal papers that I assigned students--not because I didn't enjoy reading their work--but because the time it took to grade the papers (at the high school level)was excessive. Even with the use of specific rubrics it was challenging. Utilizing read-arounds and peer response rubrics helped, but with ELL students, in particular, that was not possible. Still read-arounds and peer response can be used effectively to reduce the paperwork burden on the teacher and increase timely, quality feedback to students.