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Tag: verbal feedback
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What is the right amount of feedback? A question few teachers ask, but to which every teacher needs to know the answer.
If you have seven targets to implement at the same time, good luck to you! If you have one on which you can focus all your effort, I’ll wager that…
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The two questions every teacher can ask to instantly assess whether or not their feedback is going to land how they want it to
In some cases, we may deliver personalised, clear, intelligible feedback yet still find ourselves in difficulties. Learners either ignore our feedback or simply don’t believe in it. In the latter…
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The not-so-secret pivot that flips feedback from useful to essential
Personalised feedback is feedback that is specific to the learner. This does not mean that it will always differ from the feedback other learners receive. For example, it is perfectly…
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The magic power of feedback to create purpose and increase learner effort over time
Feedback is an incredibly effective way to sustain learner purpose and target learners’ efforts. Let us imagine two classrooms. One in which no feedback is given, the other in which…
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How to start seeing feedback as a shortcut for sharing your expertise with learners
It is worth looking a little deeper at the idea of expertise and the notion that feedback is in large part a process through which you can give students access…