Lesson 5.5: Monitoring and Giving Feedback
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6. Monitoring and Giving Feedback
Monitoring
- be more aware of their performance and more responsible for their learning
- improve their learning
- predict achievement on state and local standardized tests
- achieve higher grades
- when to ask a question, or give a prompt
- when to praise
- whether to challenge
- how to include different groups of students in a task what to do about mistakes
Listening to and observing students
- listen to your students reading aloud
- Listen to discussions in pair or group work
- observe students using resources outdoors or in the classroom observe the body language of groups as they work
Giving feedback
- information about what happened
- an evaluation of how well the action or task was performed guidance as to how their performance can be improved
- what they can actually do
- what they cannot do yet
- how their work compares with that of others how they can improve
- focused on the task being undertaken and the learning that the student needs to do
- clear and honest, telling the student what is good about their learning as well as what requires improvement
- actionable, telling the student to do something that they are able to do
- given in appropriate language that the student can understand
- given at the right time – if it’s given too soon, the student will think ‘I was just going to do that!’; too late, and the student’s focus will have moved elsewhere and they will not want to go back and do what is asked.