#ReflectiveTeacher Blogging Challenge Day 14: Better feedback
What is feedback for learning, and how well do you give it to students?
Here is every single way I can think of that I give feedback in a day:
Pronunciation:
- Underlining on the board
- Escuchen y repitan
- Perfecto
- Excelente
- Eso es
Spelling & mechanics:
- Blog comments
- Color-coded highlights
- Google Doc suggestions
Vocabulary:
- Questioning (“What’s another word in English?”)
- Charades
- Memory jogging
- Interactive Notebook pointing
- Word wall pointing
- Intentional misunderstanding (ME gusta???)
- Carefully worded cognate-ful responses
- Se dice [translation]
Content:
- Conferences
- Mini-lessons (“This is not Spanish”)
- Class discussion
- Rubrics
- Back channel questions/comments
- Google Classroom comments (overall praise & problems)
- Google Doc comments (suggestions & questions)
- More blog comments (connections, suggestions)
Now, looking at all of that, I’m feeling pretty good about myself. Looking at how my students are doing–and feeling–so far this semester overall, I’d say I’m at my professional peak so far.
And yet, I am a week behind on grades, and I haven’t listened to any Vocaroo conversations, never mind those soundboard glogs that have gone unclicked for two weeks. I’m pushing forward with tweets tomorrow without having put so much as a number, much less as a helpful hint, on their retweet posts. I’m still collecting essays Tuesday even though tomorrow is the only day we’ll be writing in class, and once again, I may not get to every one.
So how am I doing on feedback? Let’s say better, but still bettering.
