Summary
What is Feedback?
Who benefits from feedback?
How can we add EAL strategies to optimise feedback?
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FEEDBACK
Specific, accurate, timely, and clear instructions and recommendations that focus on the improvement of tasks that students have worked on.
Informs students and teachers about student performance.
Helps teachers refocus teaching plans and strategies .
Helps students review, reflect, and realign their personal learning goals.
Can be provided by teachers and/or peers.
Can be formal and/or informal.
Can be in various forms – oral, written, online, screencast, etc.
May be formative or summative.
Must include details on why or why not a student achieved the grades/outcomes.
Needs to be continuous and refer back to previous recommendations .
Provides detailed and specific recommendations on how to improve.
Supports and encourages ongoing improvement.
Should be focussed on a few things at a time.
In an English as an Additional Language (EAL) classroom, feedback:
Must be followed through with one-on-one or small group review and reflect sessions.
Needs to be further supported with scaffolds and models of what is expected as the end product.
Should be broken into doable chunks of work.
Provides multiple opportunities for students to experience small successes along the way.
Uses simple, clear, and easy to follow language so students can demonstrate understanding as they monitor and self-regulate their improvement .
