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Descriptive Feedback Project Peter Kirkelos, Mike Reynolds, Christine Vesprini, Natalie Casale, Ben Roy, Alvira Pink

Purpose of our Project 1. To better understand and implement ongoing descriptive feedback that is linked to our success criteria in Literacy 2. We explored multiple feedback strategies, both in reading and writing. 3. We also explored methods of keeping track of the feedback provided to the students.

Why do we need feedback? https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=8NPzLBSBzPI https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=KdxEAt91D7k What success criteria or feedback might have been useful in these clips? (Mike)

Key Learning from our Project (Natalie) 1. Model and chunk each part of the Success Criteria 2. Success Criteria needs to work for students

3. It is more efficient to use student work to drive your instruction in the initial stages of a unit, when teaching the success criteria, rather than focusing on individual student feedback 4. Differentiate feedback for students 5. Check on students to see how they are applying feedback

Model and chunk each part of the Success Criteria ● Show students what each part means, what each part looks like ● Go over students work samples to show them what each part could look like ● Highlighting each success criteria in their work (Ben)

Classroom Examples 1. Show Grade 3 & 6 EQAO Reading Response Lesson (Peter, Mike, Natalie, Alvira) (Carousel) 2. Mini-Lessons to chunk criteria: (Alvira & Ben) http://feedback.commons.hwdsb.on.ca/?p=83 3. Breaking Down Success Criteria: (Peter) http://feedback.commons.hwdsb.on.ca/?p=258 4. Interactive Pencil Activity (Peter)

Success Criteria needs to work for students (Christine) Should create it with the students, so that they understand it and it is in their language Students seem to prefer, and are more successful when the success criteria is more sequential (laying out how to communicate their thinking), in a step by step manner

Examples Talking about Success Criteria and Feedback: http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/dissection- kate-and-jennifer/18095216/?s=1tAzjP&ref=link http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/vinny- florent/16088924/?s=69jK2L&ref=link Feedback about Success Criteria: https://docs.google.com/a/hwdsb.on. ca/document/d/1Yih2T- f5jkv_wRBLbGAPk2G6eTE8n3kjxG0uS9-KpEU/edit https://docs.google.com/a/hwdsb.on. ca/document/d/192zVOJFv15uP-lS0BBDbHt7XkF- 3x1kRh00LrvFjEW4/edit

Students need to have the success criteria reinforced over time ● Multiple opportunities to practice using the success criteria ○ take a look at student work samples with success criteria & feedback (Christine)

Initial Stages of unit: use student work to drive your instruction rather than focusing on individual student feedback ● A lot of the next steps or needs are used as formative assessment to plan the next lessons ● Students need several attempts at the concepts/task to start understanding what they need to do ● Feedback could be limited to positive comments, what students have done well Ben Group Discussion

Differentiate feedback for students ● written feedback ○ Google Docs feedback (Ben, Alvira) ○ post-it notes (Peter, Mike) ○ success criteria checklist (Ben, Alvira, Natalie) ● conferencing (Natalie, Peter) ● collaboration in groups (Alvira, Ben--math) ○ http://feedback.commons.hwdsb.on.ca/?p=261 ● Peer Feedback (Christine) http://feedback.commons.hwdsb.on.ca/?p=145

Christine

Check on students to see how they are applying feedback (Christine, Alvira) Whether they understand the feedback (looking at the multiple opportunities given Feedback needs to be simple and relevant Feedback log helps students to focus their next steps https://docs.google.com/a/hwdsb.on. ca/document/d/1PzkWMIHvlGWQzIBOppfWg7Ef9 TPsfDx-dYzedIECYB4/edit

Comments & Final Thoughts Share: ● a feedback practice you have found useful ● a feedback practice you currently use ● a feedback practice you want to try

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