Guiding Question: How does posting objectives and providing timely feedback enhance learning?

1. State learning objectives in simple language and terms of knowledge rather than learning activities.

2. Relate the learning objectives to things that are personally relevant to the students.

3. Model for students how to set their own learning objectives and provide feedback on the learning objective.

4. Periodically check students understanding of the learning objectives.

5. Select content sources, discussion questions, activities, assignments, and assessment questions/methods according to how well they help students achieve learning objectives.

6. Provide students with information about what good performance or high-quality work looks like well before the assessment.

7. Provide students with feedback as soon after the event as possible and throughout a unit of instruction

8. After providing students with feedback about what they did correctly and what they need to do to improve performance, provide opportunities for them to continue working on the task until they succeed.

9. Consider using technology to increase the rate of feedback, help organize it, and document it for further reflection.