Giving Effective Feedback to Your Students, Disc 2: Seven Key Factors to Ensure Effective Feedback, Nov/2009

Help teachers give the type of feedback that leads to increased student achievement with the information and examples from this 30-minute DVD. Use the program’s classroom scenes in your next workshop or inservice to demonstrate to teachers, in every grade level and subject area, the seven key factors that ensure effective feedback:

1. Focus—on the work itself, process, student self-regulation, student progress, or a combination.
2. Comparison—criterion-based, norm-referenced, or compared to a student’s past performance.
3. Function—to emphasize description rather than judgment.
4. Valence (emotional resonance)—using positive comments and balancing negative comments with recommendations for improvement.
5. Clarity—giving the right amount and content and addressing the student’s developmental level.
6. Specificity—specific enough so that students know what to do.
7. Tone—communicating respect and placing the student at the center of the learning process.

An embedded professional development program with accompanying PowerPoint presentation and handouts is included.