Technology in the Classroom, Lesson & Curriculum Planning, Teaching Strategies, 21st Century Learning
Course Description:
(18 Hours) This course will teach you how to provide structured, specific, and actionable feedback to your students. You will learn how to design criteria to observe, collect evidence, and write both positive and improvement feedback. You will also consider when to provide feedback to your students and how to set goals for your students to improve.
Course Objectives:
Learn about communicating your observations to students via specific evidence.
Learn the components of positive feedback
Learn the components of improvement feedback
Learn a general implementation strategy for effective student feedback
Course includes 23 high-quality tools, templates, & student resources.
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Includes One year of Course Access, Fully Self-Paced & Online.
Student feedback is any written or verbal response specific to a student’s academic or behavioral performance. Feedback helps students identify what they did well and what to improve in the future.
Good feedback improves student performance, but bad feedback is ineffective and could potentially harm a student. In this course, you’ll learn about a specific formula for providing meaningful feedback to students that results in improved performance.
Feedback in this Course:
Feedback can be applied in various ways—to individual students, groups, or your entire class. It can also be applied in various contexts: quick feedback on an assessment, detailed feedback on an area of focus, or any time that dialogue may occur between you and your students. This course will give you a comprehensive overview and step-by-step strategies for providing improvement feedback to your students that will not only move them forward academically but also inspire and support them in what they are doing well.
You Will Learn:
How to align feedback criteria with classroom expectations and make sure it is measurable, observable, and specific.
How to provide clear expectations within any student feedback you provide. Students thrive when they have clear expectations to follow.
How to provide evidence that is observed, not inferred with a clear focus on the student’s actions.
How to provide positive feedback that includes a clear description of a student’s behavior and an explanation inferring how that behavior is valuable to the student for improving performance.
How to provide improvement feedback that includes a suggestion summary, a plan of action, and a reflection for students to consider when thinking about ways to improve.
How to use on-the-spot feedback during classroom instruction, during group work check-ins, on an assessment, and in areas outside of class.
How to use formal feedback after an oral presentation, as part of a summative assessment, in formal student-teacher conferences, or at the same time progress reports or report cards are administered.
Course Guiding Question:
How can I provide structured feedback to my students that results in them improving in the classroom?
Professional Development Credits
At the conclusion of the course, you will receive a certificate for 18 Professional Development Hours (Clock Hours, CPEs).
Model Teaching Professional Development Courses are pre-approved in many states and we provide easy approval forms to submit to your license granting authority if required.
If you are a teacher seeking license renewal and wish to verify acceptance of our Professional Development Courses, please view our PD STATE REQUIREMENTS PAGE to learn more about your state’s requirements.
Also, consider taking our UNIVERSITY-PARTNERED, ACADEMIC CREDIT COURSES to earn regionally accredited units or credits, accepted by most states for teacher re-licensing and salary advancement.
Approval Information About This Course for Teaching License Renewal & Continuing Education
Model Teaching has helped thousands of teachers across the country meet their relicensing requirements.
This course is Pre-Approved in the following states for License Renewal and Continuing education:
Texas – CPE’s, TEA-Approved
New York CTLE’s – NYSED-Approved
Pennsylvania DOE – ACT 48-Approved
Montana Office of Public Instruction (OPI) – Approved
Nevada DOE
Tennessee
Other States As Well
If you do not see your state listed here, this course may be pre-approved in your state as well. Chat with us or leave a ticket for our recommendations.
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Please confirm your specific district or state requirements for license renewal prior to registering and feel free to reach out to us with any questions you may have about our courses.
Topics Covered and General Course Outline
Section 1 – Criteria for Feedback
The purpose of providing detailed student feedback
Why feedback is important for your students
What criteria are important to consider for feedback
Section 2 – The Evidence
What evidence is and why it is important
How to generate evidence following 4 rules
When to note clarifications on student behavior in your observations
Section 3 – Providing Positive Feedback to Your Students
The purpose of providing positive feedback
How to identify student strengths and deliver positive feedback
Section 4 – Providing Feedback on Areas of Improvement
Purpose of providing feedback on areas of weakness
The four main components of improvement feedback
How to select the right areas for improvement and deliver appropriate and specific feedback
Section 5 – Implementing Feedback In Your Classroom
Choosing feedback
Frequency of observations
Expectations
Helpful Resources & Templates Included With the Course
The course comes with 23 templates, tools, and graphic organizers ready to be used in your classroom!
These Include:
Expectation Analyzer with samples
Evidence Checklist Form with samples
Evidence Scripting Form with samples
Positive Feedback Worksheet with samples
Improvement Feedback Worksheet with samples
Positive and Negative Feedback Checklist Tracker with samples
