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Purpose, Goals, and Objectives
Purpose
This module explores descriptive purposeful feedback and its use as a strategy for differentiation and as a formative assessment tool. This module explores in detail research integral to understanding what effective and purposeful feedback is and the importance of providing specific and descriptive feedback. This module provides an evaluator the understanding and tools for how to use purposeful feedback to determine if a student is meeting the established performance criteria or if more intensive intervention is needed.
This module explores descriptive purposeful feedback and its use as a strategy for differentiation and as a formative assessment tool. This module explores in detail research integral to understanding what effective and purposeful feedback is and the importance of providing specific and descriptive feedback. This module provides an evaluator the understanding and tools for how to use purposeful feedback to determine if a student is meeting the established performance criteria or if more intensive intervention is needed.
Goal
The goal of this module is for teachers, assessors, and evaluators to better implement and understand the use of effective feedback techniques to move student understanding forward in any given subject area.
The goal of this module is for teachers, assessors, and evaluators to better implement and understand the use of effective feedback techniques to move student understanding forward in any given subject area.
Objectives
After completing the entire module and reviewing the accompanying activities, you should be able to:
After completing the entire module and reviewing the accompanying activities, you should be able to:
- describe what effective purposeful feedback is and what it is not.
- identify strategies and tools that augment effective purposeful feedback.
- identify how to set goals, monitor instruction, and adjust instruction based on providing effective purposeful feedback.
- understand how to implement effective feedback strategies to determine the necessary skills the learner needs for ongoing success in learning outcomes.
Alignment to State and National Standards' Expectations
The goals and objectives of this module are designed to provide the user the understanding and knowledge to utilize the research-based highly effective strategy "purposeful descriptive feedback" for increasing student outcomes.
What supports are being provided to teachers to help them ensure students are prepared to reach the goals established by the Standards?
Decisions on how to implement the standards, including the right supports to put in place, are made at the state and local levels. As such, states and localities are taking different approaches to implementing the standards and providing their teachers with the supports they need to help students successfully reach the standards.
(Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2015 FAQs)
Providing educators professional development on how to make the best use of their instructional time to impact their students' learning is critical for student success.
Decisions on how to implement the standards, including the right supports to put in place, are made at the state and local levels. As such, states and localities are taking different approaches to implementing the standards and providing their teachers with the supports they need to help students successfully reach the standards.
(Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2015 FAQs)
Providing educators professional development on how to make the best use of their instructional time to impact their students' learning is critical for student success.
One of the most effective uses of a teacher's time is in giving good feedback - which should be sparing, specific and encouraging (Vasagar, 2011).
It is more important to give feedback about what is right than what is wrong...It is also best to praise a particular task that has been accomplished well rather than praise a pupil as an individual with phrases like "good girl".
Vasagar, 2011
What do the State Standards mean for students?
Today's students are preparing to enter a world in which colleges and businesses are demanding more than ever before. To ensure all students are prepared for success after graduation, the standards establishes a set of clear, consistent guidelines for what students should know and be able to do at each grade level in math and English language arts.
(Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2015 FAQs)
Today's students are preparing to enter a world in which colleges and businesses are demanding more than ever before. To ensure all students are prepared for success after graduation, the standards establishes a set of clear, consistent guidelines for what students should know and be able to do at each grade level in math and English language arts.
(Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2015 FAQs)
How do the Standards impact teachers?
The standards impact teachers by:
The standards impact teachers by:
- Providing them with consistent goals and benchmarks to ensure students are progressing on a path for success in college, career, and life
- Providing them with consistent expectations for students who move into their districts and classrooms from other states
- Providing them the opportunity to collaborate with teachers across the country as they develop curricula, materials, and assessments linked to high-quality standards
- Helping colleges and professional development programs better prepare teachers (Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2015 FAQs)
Proceed to the Challenge!
References
Common Core State Standards Initiative. (2015). Frequently asked questions. Retrieved June 2015 from http://www.corestandards.org/about-the-standards/frequently-asked-questions/
Vasagar, J. (May 2011). Give children feedback to improve standards in school, says new guide. Education Editor . Retrieved June 2015 from http://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/may/26/children-feedback-improves-school-standards
Common Core State Standards Initiative. (2015). Frequently asked questions. Retrieved June 2015 from http://www.corestandards.org/about-the-standards/frequently-asked-questions/
Vasagar, J. (May 2011). Give children feedback to improve standards in school, says new guide. Education Editor . Retrieved June 2015 from http://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/may/26/children-feedback-improves-school-standards