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Effective Feedback to Improve Student Achievement

Course #: EDUC_715I

Semester Credits: 3

Cost: $375.00

It's not about grades; it's about learning! When teachers provide effective feedback, they become learning coaches for their students. Learning coaches share strategies and techniques to help students succeed. An individual teacher can have a powerful effect on student achievement when they maximize the possibility of improving student achievement through effective feedback. Lots of ideas will be provided in how to phrase feedback to improve achievement for successful, struggling, and reluctant students.

Goals

Educators will be able to:
* give effective feedback to successful, struggling, and reluctant students to improve achievement
* use language to help children acquire literacy skills to enhance learning
* define noticing and naming, identity, agency and becoming strategic, flexibility and transfer (for generalizing), knowing, and an evolutionary, democratic learning community
* provide five examples of teacher talk for each of the above categories
* list five effective feedback statements to use to improve the achievement of the struggling student, the reluctant student, and the successful student and describe the types of focus, comparison, function, and valence related to the learning goals

This course is applicable towards the following certificate(s):
*Motivation and Classroom Management

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