Effective Feedback to Improve Student Achievement
Effective Feedback to Improve Student Achievement will guide educators through the essential process of providing timely and specific feedback. When adequately formulated feedback is delivered to different types of learners, including successful, struggling, reluctant, or English language learners, it extends their learning, boosts their confidence, and demonstrates their teacher’s care and understanding for their students’ individual needs. Students completing this course will learn how to adjust feedback for different types of learners through relevant, context-specific strategies and examples of how to offer targeted feedback.
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Course Name: Effective Feedback to Improve Student Achievement |
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Course Number: EDUC 715I |
Semester Credits: 3 |
Course Description
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. This timely course will provide many ideas on how to phrase feedback to enhance achievement for successful, struggling, and reluctant students.
Goals
- 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.
Course Contents
- An Overview of Feedback
- Types of Feedback and Their Purposes
- Characteristics of the Feedback Message
- How to Give Effective Written Feedback
- How to Give Effective Oral Feedback
- Feedback as an Episode of Learning
- Content-Specific Suggestions for Feedback
- Adjusting Feedback for Different Learners
- The Language of Influence in Teaching
- Noticing and Naming
- Identify
- Agency and Becoming Strategic
- Flexibility and Transfer (or Generalizing)
- Knowing
- An Evolutionary, Democratic Learning Community
- Who Do You Think You're Talking To?
Evidence of Learning Outcomes
Upon completing Effective Feedback to Improve Student Achievement, the student will demonstrate a reflective understanding of how to give effective feedback to improve student achievement. The student will receive examples of subject-related feedback they can use in their subject area by applying concepts learned throughout this course.
How to Register
Effective Feedback to Improve Student Achievement is offered in both an online or emailed PDF format, and all books and materials are included in the registration. Like all of our courses, it is open for anyone to register at any time during a semester. After completion, students earn graduate, non-degree semester credit from an accredited university, as reflected on their official transcript.
Registration is straightforward and can be done online or over the phone. Courses are offered ongoing during three semesters, and you can start whenever you are ready! Students may choose to enroll in up to a maximum of 15-semester credits at any time during each semester. The registration dates are:
- Fall: September 1 - January 31
- Spring: February 1 - May 31
- Summer: June 1 - August 31