Preparing for the year?
How will your students receive feedback? How will they know how to improve?
Learn more in this interview with John Hattie
How can teachers learn to give (and receive) feedback in an appropriate and timely manner?
There are two things I have learnt about feedback that are important – first think of feedback that is received not given. And while teachers see feedback as corrections, criticism, comments, and clarifications, for students unless it includes “where to next” information they tend to not use it.
Students want feedback just for them, just in time, and just helping nudge them forward. So worry more about how students are receiving your feedback much more than increasing how much you give.
Also, a third major finding is when teachers receive feedback about their impact then the students are the biggest beneficiaries.
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Seniors Are Smart: a service learning idea
Feeling patriotic? Take a minute to recognize those who've come before us...
Seniors Are Smart: a service-learning activity for the first semester focusing on local seniors
Overview: Publish an anthology of stories from local seniors. Students interview local seniors at a senior center/home or host a day at a local library and invite seniors to come in and share their stories.
1) collaboration is key: ask your Librarian how to best set this up for a group of students to interview a group of seniors; pay attention to permission from facility and/or family of the seniors as well as safety, limitations, and logistics for all involved
2) investigate how to do a power-interview: questions, transcription, etiquette/manners
3) interview seniors
4) in class - students transcribe and read stories out-loud to the class
5) together, determine criteria for evaluating stories to include in an anthology
6) create a publishing house/company in the classroom (editor, copywriters, proofreaders, designers, illustrators, photographers, promotion)
7) compile and publish anthology of interesting stories
8) get photos of the publishing company and each of the seniors that made it into the anthology
9) publish and promote the book at the library or center/senior home if the seniors cannot leave their facility
If you have permissions from the seniors and/or their families/facilities please link your books to my Community Narratives blog at http://communitynarratives.blogspot.com/
Seniors Are Smart: a service-learning activity for the first semester focusing on local seniors
Overview: Publish an anthology of stories from local seniors. Students interview local seniors at a senior center/home or host a day at a local library and invite seniors to come in and share their stories.
1) collaboration is key: ask your Librarian how to best set this up for a group of students to interview a group of seniors; pay attention to permission from facility and/or family of the seniors as well as safety, limitations, and logistics for all involved
2) investigate how to do a power-interview: questions, transcription, etiquette/manners
3) interview seniors
4) in class - students transcribe and read stories out-loud to the class
5) together, determine criteria for evaluating stories to include in an anthology
6) create a publishing house/company in the classroom (editor, copywriters, proofreaders, designers, illustrators, photographers, promotion)
7) compile and publish anthology of interesting stories
8) get photos of the publishing company and each of the seniors that made it into the anthology
9) publish and promote the book at the library or center/senior home if the seniors cannot leave their facility
If you have permissions from the seniors and/or their families/facilities please link your books to my Community Narratives blog at http://communitynarratives.blogspot.com/
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