Overview: Mastering Marking and Developmental Feedback
Overview of course objectives
Importance of high-quality feedback
Defining Excellent Feedback
Identifying Inadequate Feedback
Aligning Feedback to Standards
Making Feedback Actionable
Timeliness and Regularity
Tone and Personalisation
Aligning to Command Verbs
Applying Precise Descriptors
Descriptor Vocabulary Activity
Standards by Grade Level
Examples by Grade
Categorising Feedback Statements
Practice Scenarios
Benefits of Written Feedback
Benefits of Verbal Feedback
Limitations and Challenges
Course Conclusion and Key Takeaways
Multiple Choice Questions
Overview
Providing high-quality, development-focused feedback is one of the most important skills in effective teaching and training. Feedback is invaluable for clarifying expectations, highlighting learner strengths and growth areas, providing guidance for improvement, promoting deeper understanding, and enabling meaningful progress.
However, crafting truly exceptional feedback is also complex. It requires a strategic approach underpinned by an understanding of core principles and best practices. This course aims to equip you with the knowledge, strategies, and resources to take your feedback abilities to the next level.
Mastering Marking and Developmental Feedback🎓
Over the following interactive lessons, you will learn:
- The hallmarks of truly outstanding, transformative feedback
- How to align feedback with grade-level standards and expectations
- Techniques for applying precise language and descriptors
- Effective practices for written and verbal feedback delivery
- Ways to provide consistent, personalised, and impactful feedback
You will come away from this course with the skills and mindset to provide high-calibre feedback that actively maximises learners’ potential. Your dedication as a teacher to honing these abilities will empower significant gains in learner development, engagement, and academic success.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Identify the core principles of high-quality, development-focused feedback
- Recognise the key elements that comprise outstanding, transformative feedback
- Distinguish excellent feedback from inadequate feedback
- Understand how to provide feedback that is actionable and focused on learner development
- Align feedback to standards and expectations for each grade level
- Learn the knowledge, skills and understanding required at each grade level
- Craft feedback using language and examples tailored to grade-specific standards
- Ensure feedback is benchmarked to established criteria for each grade
- Apply precise descriptive language and command verbs in feedback
- Utilise vivid language and descriptors to reinforce expectations
- Align feedback to commanded levels of cognition and competence
- Select descriptive terms and verbs appropriate for grade-level standards
- Select appropriate written and verbal feedback methods
- Determine when written or verbal methods are most effective
- Learn techniques and best practices for high-quality written feedback
- Learn techniques and best practices for high-quality verbal feedback
- Understand challenges and how to optimise both methods
- Provide consistent, strategic feedback that unlocks learners’ potential
- Schedule and deliver timely feedback at key milestones
- Adopt a constructive, positive tone focused on development
- Personalize and tailor feedback to individual learners
- Continuously strengthen feedback skills to enhance learner outcomes
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