Focus Area 5.2 - Provide feedback to students on their learning
Provide timely, effective and appropriate feedback to students about their achievement relative to their learning goals.
Feedback is a crucial part of students learning. Having the opportunity to provide students with feedback allows them to gain understanding on where they are at with their learning, how they can achieve their goals, and also allows you as the educator to understand how you can assist the child to move forward.
During my biology unit for a 4/5 class, students were given a research project to investigate the adaptations of particular animals. Students were given 5 weeks to complete the project. At the end of week 3 of their time, I held individual meetings with students to find out where they are at with their project, and to provide them with feedback. To do this, students had to bring their work, planning notes and rubric to the meeting so we could go through what they had done so far, and what they had to do next. In the meeting I provided them with a feedback sheet, which had seperate parts (see below). This sheet allowed the teacher and student to go through their assignment, and as I provided them with verbal feedback, we wrote the feedback down in each part on the sheet. So they could understand and remember the feedback for each component of their assignment. This allowed them to use their feedback to improve and move forward in their learning.
Another form of feedback I use with students is '2 stars and a wish'. This is seen in the pictures below. The strategy allows me to write down '2 stars' which represent 2 aspects of their work that I believe stood out, and the '1 wish' which represents something I wish they could have done better to improve. As seen below, is an example I provided students with their formative poetry assignments. During this time, I provided students with sticky notes to leave 1 star and 1 wish on someone else's piece of work after doing a gallery walk. This allowed students to practice providing and receiving feedback to each other.
During my biology unit for a 4/5 class, students were given a research project to investigate the adaptations of particular animals. Students were given 5 weeks to complete the project. At the end of week 3 of their time, I held individual meetings with students to find out where they are at with their project, and to provide them with feedback. To do this, students had to bring their work, planning notes and rubric to the meeting so we could go through what they had done so far, and what they had to do next. In the meeting I provided them with a feedback sheet, which had seperate parts (see below). This sheet allowed the teacher and student to go through their assignment, and as I provided them with verbal feedback, we wrote the feedback down in each part on the sheet. So they could understand and remember the feedback for each component of their assignment. This allowed them to use their feedback to improve and move forward in their learning.
Another form of feedback I use with students is '2 stars and a wish'. This is seen in the pictures below. The strategy allows me to write down '2 stars' which represent 2 aspects of their work that I believe stood out, and the '1 wish' which represents something I wish they could have done better to improve. As seen below, is an example I provided students with their formative poetry assignments. During this time, I provided students with sticky notes to leave 1 star and 1 wish on someone else's piece of work after doing a gallery walk. This allowed students to practice providing and receiving feedback to each other.
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