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How Feedback Impacts Your Classroom
How Feedback Impacts Your Classroom
Feedback is the final piece that brings every TWR strategy full circle. Utilizing good feedback creates a common language between teacher and student that utilizes the language of TWR. We should always strive for feedback that is meaningful and understandable. Feedback should be positive to help foster a supportive and motivating writing environment. This pushes students thinking and writing forward by giving clear, actionable steps to take.
Why Give Feedback
Why Give Feedback
Supports in mastering new skill
Reduces cognitive load of learners
Signals gap in understanding
Motivates higher levels of effort
Builds on and reinforces existing knowledge
Creating a Supportive & Motivating Writing Environment
Creating a Supportive & Motivating Writing Environment
Feedback increases value students place on learning
Feedback increases the degree to which students feel able to carry out a task
Increases desire to revise and make writing better
Motivate writers by allowing multiple opportunities to write in interesting and useful ways
Motivation leads to self-efficacy
Types of Explicit Feedback
Types of Explicit Feedback
"In the Moment" Explicit Feedback
Circling the room and correcting as students work
Correcting verbal responses
Correcting through a document camera
Have students work on the board and correct any mistakes as they work
Written Feedback
Goal is to NOT rewrite student work
Allows students to revise on their own
Expectation is to revise to make writing better
Utilize common proofreading symbols
Staple a proofreading handout to student work
Use it as a key to revise their work
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