2. Hopefully, you’ll…
• remember some things you
used to do
• take away one or two ideas
• see an aspect of feedback from
a new perspective
3. Feedback: why?
• teachers are more than ‘activity managers’
• to help students ‘notice the gap’
• to celebrate achievement
• help students assess performance
• help students understand how to improve
• make students accountable for their time
4. Feedback is part of a cycle of teaching
and learning.
Good feedback comes from:
•an activity with an outcome that
you/students can feedback on
•good monitoring: you should have an
idea of how well your students have
done before feedback
Feedback: what? (1)
5. Praise: make it specific! ‘Well done for…’
‘The way you used “_____” sounded really natural.’
Reformulation: improving the language
students have used; helping them ‘notice the
gap’
Feedback: what? (2)
6. Praise: make it specific! ‘Well done for…’
‘The way you used “_____” sounded really natural.’
Reformulation: improving the language
students have used; helping them ‘notice the
gap’
Answers: focus on problems; provide
evidence
Instruction: errors, concept-check, re-
explain
Feedback: what? (2)
7. Praise: make it specific! ‘Well done for…’
‘The way you used “_____” sounded really natural.’
Reformulation: improving the language
students have used; helping them ‘notice the
gap’
Answers: focus on problems; provide
evidence
Instruction: errors, concept-check, re-
explain
Strategies: discuss/model how to do
something
Evaluation: the students’ performance; how
to improve; most useful language
Feedback: what? (2)
8. Phonology: what sounded natural, words
and phrases to work on
Useful language: things students could
have said/written
Feedback: what? (3)
9. Phonology: what sounded natural, words
and phrases to work on
Useful language: things students could
have said/written
Repetition: ‘raise your game’!
Respond to content : students are more
than just language learners
Feedback: what? (3)
10. Phonology: what sounded natural, words
and phrases to work on
Useful language: things students could
have said/written
Repetition: ‘raise your game’!
Respond to content : students are more
than just language learners
•Vary these and don’t do too many at once
•Rule of thumb: feedback not longer than
activity (unless it’s listening)
Feedback: what? (3)
11.
12. Feedback: who, how and
when?
TEACHER TO STUDENTS: SOME IDEAS
•plan what you’re going to feedback on
•give feedback to students while they’re
talking/writing - post-it notes?
•student-directed feedback, e.g. put up all
answers, students ask for teacher’s help
13. Feedback: who, how and
when? STUDENTS TO TEACHER: SOME IDEAS
•be careful of ‘hotspots’: areas you teach to
•engage everyone : students nominate each
other, whiteboard slates, lollipop sticks?
•non-verbal feedback, e.g. hand gestures,
traffic light cups?
•agree criteria for success; students self-
evaluate e.g. ‘I used four new phrases’
14. Feedback: who, how and
when?
STUDENTS TO STUDENTS: SOME IDEAS
•students check answers in pairs before
‘going public’ (58% at IH Bristol)
•class secretary writes answers up,
teacher monitors
•give one student all answers (students
can request teacher explanations)
15. Further resources
Dylan Williams: lollipop sticks, traffic light
cups and whiteboard slates in
‘The Classroom Experiment’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J25d9aC1GZA
Blog entry on feedback:
http://www.stevedarn.com/?Writings::GME
%3A_Student_Feedback_on_Tasks_and_Ac
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