As teachers, many times we are looking for new ways to increase student achievement and motivation in our classrooms. Some teachers will differentiate lessons or bring in real world applications to the activities and assignments that the students are working on. While these are quality strategies that do have a positive influence on student achievement and motivation, there is another strategy that is just as powerful that I would like to focus on. And that is providing timely feedback. Although this is probably the easiest strategy to implement, it also the one that is most under used by educators. Every day teachers have the opportunity to provide formal and informal feedback to their students. These opportunities can be during instruction, practice or after completion of an assessment.
The key to making feedback worthwhile to students is that it has to be timely and needs to be as constructive as possible. By taking too much time to return assessments or by not providing any feedback on assignments at all, students will adopt the mindset that these things are not important. And while a score will suffice in some situations, take the time to provide some quality individual feedback to your students. This can be a quick conference after an assessment or something written on the assignment that lets the students know that you care about them and that you what them to be successful.
Acuity provides an excellent opportunity for teachers to provide feedback to students. Teachers can use the data generated by Acuity to show students were they are currently and how they have progressed from Predictive A to Predictive B. Not only will notifying the students inform them of their current proficiency level, but it will also give them data they can use to set a personal goal for the next assessment. And I know not all teachers have Acuity data to conference with students about, but take the time in the next couple of weeks to provide your students with some quality feedback. Use something they have just completed or conference with them about their semester grade and have them set a goal for the remainder of the year. Stay warm this weekend by TURNING UP THE HEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!
The key to making feedback worthwhile to students is that it has to be timely and needs to be as constructive as possible. By taking too much time to return assessments or by not providing any feedback on assignments at all, students will adopt the mindset that these things are not important. And while a score will suffice in some situations, take the time to provide some quality individual feedback to your students. This can be a quick conference after an assessment or something written on the assignment that lets the students know that you care about them and that you what them to be successful.
Acuity provides an excellent opportunity for teachers to provide feedback to students. Teachers can use the data generated by Acuity to show students were they are currently and how they have progressed from Predictive A to Predictive B. Not only will notifying the students inform them of their current proficiency level, but it will also give them data they can use to set a personal goal for the next assessment. And I know not all teachers have Acuity data to conference with students about, but take the time in the next couple of weeks to provide your students with some quality feedback. Use something they have just completed or conference with them about their semester grade and have them set a goal for the remainder of the year. Stay warm this weekend by TURNING UP THE HEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!