Feedback Revisited

          Earlier this school year I posted and talked about the impact of feedback on student achievement.  As Craig and I visited bonus periods on Friday Oct. 12th we saw many great things occurring with students sitting with teachers having conversations about student learning data.  The strength in our s2s process of having data conversations with students lies in the students reflecting upon where they currently are in relationship to their goals that they have set using their student data tracker.  These conversations are general in nature due to many teachers having students that are not in their classes,  however these conversations help students realize that we care and that their performance on all of these assessments is important to us and important for them in reaching their goals.  This time during s2s bonus days are of immense importance to our success as a school.  Until we show students how much we care they will not care.  Having 1 on 1 conversations with students around their learning data or even whole group conversations about what are good goals for students is powerful and meaningful work.  I recently read an article on how less teaching and more feedback equals better results.  We cannot ignore the role that feedback plays for students today.  Students get abundant amounts of feedback in their lives outside of school.  Video games give immediate feedback, social media provides instant feedback, and if students do not get feedback they move on to other things that do.  They simply gravitate to things, tasks, people, and places that give them instant gratification.
          With this in mind students should be tracking their learning data and having conversations with caring teachers reflecting on where they stand in relation to their well crafted goals.  You can take the time in your classes to give meaningful feedback, give them their student learning data, and explain the assessments and data that we collect.  If we spend time doing this important work we can stop doing things to students and instead strengthen student ownership of their success.  Do Not waste this valuable time with students it might just be the difference in them and us becoming the best we can be.  TOGETHER we can do great things.  As we close this first 9 weeks,  take some time to get your own feedback from our customers (students) on how you are doing and then reflect on how we can improve.

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