1. Planning for Meaningful Feedback Conferencing
STUDENT FEEDBACK SESSION 3
Planning for Meaningful Feedback Conferencing

2. “The conference is where research is happening.”
LUCINDA MENDEZ Principal, Bronx Haven High School

3. Objectives
Understand the importance of providing students with manageable amounts of feedback on skills, strategies, and self-regulation
Explore approaches to providing students with feedback that is aligned with learning targets, grounded in student work, and conveyed through meaningful interaction 3

4. A Model of Feedback Planning:
Number of Minutes 1 6 30
Number of Students 4

5. Analyze Feedback Planning:
Where do you see and hear these steps in action from the facilitator’s think-aloud? Where do you think something more or different could be done?
What does this make you think about?
What questions and suggestions does it raise? 5

6. Design Feedback Activities:
Use the Conferencing Lesson Plan Tool to come up with an activity that fits into the constraints for the time and number of students in your box in the table.
Number of Minutes 1 6 30
Number of Students 6

7. Discuss Designs:
What new ideas did this give you for integrating feedback into class time?
Which method do you think you will try in your own class?
How does this compare to practices you have used in the past? 7

8. Feedback can range from…
Advisory class for feedback on progress
Graphic organizer for students to reflect and read your feedback
Read out a set of student responses to whole class and suggest what can be improved
One class period for tutoring and feedback
In-depth
In-the-moment
Class time during group work for brief one-to-one conferences
Note on clipboard during class and whisper a 1-minute suggestion to student
Peer-to-peer feedback 8

9. Apply to Your Lesson:
Select two boxes from the Finding Space for Feedback table that you will focus on in your own lesson plan.
Which two boxes did you choose and why?
Consider how you are ensuring quality feedback within a quality lesson. 9

10. Learning Wrap-Up
How do your takeaways compare to the session’s Learning Objectives?
How were these objectives addressed today?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Understand approaches for incorporating feedback and conferencing into teaching time
Integrate one-to-one feedback conferences into lessons on a regular basis 10

11. What’s next? Learn more about characteristics of effective feedback
one-to-one conferences
planning conferences during independent work time
peer feedback opportunities
Revise
your current feedback tools
additional lesson plans for feedback opportunities
Explore
conferencing artifacts
evidence of student learning in response to feedback 11