1. Integrating Feedback with Instruction
STUDENT FEEDBACK SESSION 2
Integrating Feedback with Instruction

2. “Feedback is only effective when it translates into a clear, positive message that students can hear.”
SUSAN M. BROOKHART

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 2

4. Student Perspectives on Feedback
Before, students at Bronx Haven High School associated feedback with negative feelings.
“Not good. Students only get feedback on things that need improvement.”
“I think there’s fear because the majority of the time they’re not calling on you to tell you you’re doing a good job.”
“I feel weird and nervous about what I did.” 3

5. Student Perspectives on Feedback
Now students are using teacher feedback.
“My teacher told me I needed to be more analytical and have more details on the topic I was working on... and she was able to tell me exactly when I did it right and what else I needed to work on.”
“In English class last cycle, [my teacher] asked me to change one specific thing on an essay and... I did it and I got a 95%.” 4

6. Reflect on Student Perspectives:
What resonates with you as a former student and/or educator? 5

7. Feedback Practices at Bronx Haven
State exam passing rates at Bronx Haven increased in every core subject during a three-year pilot. 6
Placing Student Feedback at the Center of Teaching and Learning, Eskolta School Research and Design, Inc., August 2016

8. Meaningful Interaction
Effective Feedback Practices
Learning Target
Student Work
Feedback is effective when it is aligned with learning targets, grounded in student work, and conveyed through meaningful interaction.
Meaningful Interaction 7

9. Research on Delivering Feedback
Feedback often revolves around the correctness and completion of the immediate task.
This can be helpful, but deeper, longer-
term benefits can arise from
feedback that uses the task
to address underlying
skills and steps for
students to monitor
their own
performance.
Self-Regulation
"You already know the key features of the opening of an argument. Check to see whether you have incorporated all of them in your intro."
Process
“Combining all like terms first in an equation like this makes the steps for solving it more straightforward.”
Task
“There’s one more vocab term to get into that paragraph.”
Self “You’re so good at this!”
Feedback about the person contains little actionable info.
Hattie, J., Timperley, H. (2007). The power of feedback. Review of Educational Research, 77 (1), 81–112. 8

10. Explore Research What are your responses to these findings?
How do they resonate with your own experiences? 9

11. Generate Examples
When effective, feedback should address three questions:
Where am I going?
How am I progressing?
What do I do next?
Brainstorm examples of feedback that allow students to answer these questions. 10

12. Analyze a Feedback Tool
Review the High School for Excellence and Innovation Math Feedback Tool.
How would this resource allow students to articulate:
Where am I going?
How am I progressing?
What do I do next? 11

13. Self-Assess
Self-assess the feedback tool that you brought from your own classroom. How does this tool allow students to articulate:
Where am I going?
How am I progressing?
What do I do next?
Make notes about adjustments you will make to enhance this tool as appropriate. 12

14. Learning Wrap-Up
How do your takeaways compare to the session’s Learning Objectives?
How were these objectives addressed today?
LEARNING 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 13

15. What’s Next? Learn more about: conferences during class time
the characteristics of effective feedback
revise your current feedback tools
using standards to identify which skills to teach
how feedback relates to motivation and mindset and the relationship between self-regulation and praise
how a sense of trust impacts feedback interactions
the impact of effective feedback
deepen understanding of rubrics as integral tools for feedback
develop assessment tasks that provide opportunities for feedback
self-assess feedback to students 14