Feedback is a very significant component of effective instruction. Feedback is effective when it helps your students answer three questions:
Hattie & Timperley, 2007
- Where am I going?
- How am I going?
- Where to next?
Sometimes teachers will give good feedback about the subject content of a task (for example, the science ideas) but neglect the literacy aspects (for example, the paragraph structure or language choices).
Effective teachers will engineer effective classroom discussions and other learning tasks that elicit evidence of student understanding; provide feedback that moves learners forward; activate students as instructional resources for one another; and activate students as the owners of their own learning (Black & William, 2009).
Find out more about effective assessment for learning and about giving feedback in a literacy context.
Published on: 08 Jan 2018
