Using Regular Student Feedback and Input to Better Support Learning - Mb Duckett Ireland, Choate Rosemary Hall
Traditionally, teachers have not used multiple forms of feedback as a means of better understanding their students. Sometimes written or verbal feedback or reflection will help a teacher find patterns in pedagogy, assessment, skills development, or content understanding. This workshop provides an opportunity to learn about best practices in many of these feedback domains with the goal of identifying those techniques that work best for you. For example, word clouds are displays of language usage by students. Sociograms can be useful in any form of discussion-based classroom to track interactions between students. New forms of assessment reinforce content and skills while measuring higher order thinking skills. Writing a one paragraph response to nightly reading assignments will yield over five thousand words during a course, and those words speak volumes about a student. The workshop will evolve based on the needs of the attendees, and will likely split into groups that wish to focus on specific sets of tools for better understanding their students.
Traditionally, teachers have not used multiple forms of feedback as a means of better understanding their students. Sometimes written or verbal feedback or reflection will help a teacher find patterns in pedagogy, assessment, skills development, or content understanding. This workshop provides an opportunity to learn about best practices in many of these feedback domains with the goal of identifying those techniques that work best for you. For example, word clouds are displays of language usage by students. Sociograms can be useful in any form of discussion-based classroom to track interactions between students. New forms of assessment reinforce content and skills while measuring higher order thinking skills. Writing a one paragraph response to nightly reading assignments will yield over five thousand words during a course, and those words speak volumes about a student. The workshop will evolve based on the needs of the attendees, and will likely split into groups that wish to focus on specific sets of tools for better understanding their students.