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Coaches model skills and show athletes how to improve with practice. Feedback on student writing can work the same way.
Coaches teach athletes how to improve. But they don’t simply yell, “Play better defense!” What would that “feedback” really tell the player?
As teachers, we are our students’ coaches in the classroom. Providing vital, quality feedback is essential to helping students improve. Just as a coach has to show players how to box out under the hoop on the basketball court, teachers must model and explain to students how to improve their work.
I still recall sitting in a professor’s office to conference about my writing. He always provided examples of sentences to improve my work, often punching the keys of his typewriter so I could take the examples with me and use them. I often thought to myself, “This is awesome—the guy rewrites my assignment for me and I get an A.” What I didn’t realize was that he was teaching me how to write through meaningful, engaging feedback.
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https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=feedback
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Coaches model skills and show athletes how to improve with practice. Feedback on student writing can work the same way.
Coaches teach athletes how to improve. But they don’t simply yell, “Play better defense!” What would that “feedback” really tell the player?
As teachers, we are our students’ coaches in the classroom. Providing vital, quality feedback is essential to helping students improve. Just as a coach has to show players how to box out under the hoop on the basketball court, teachers must model and explain to students how to improve their work.
I still recall sitting in a professor’s office to conference about my writing. He always provided examples of sentences to improve my work, often punching the keys of his typewriter so I could take the examples with me and use them. I often thought to myself, “This is awesome—the guy rewrites my assignment for me and I get an A.” What I didn’t realize was that he was teaching me how to write through meaningful, engaging feedback.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=feedback
https://gustmees.wordpress.com/?s=coaching