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EL Takeaways

Things to Remember
About Feedback
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is not advice,
Feedback 2 If students know
the classroom is a safe place to
3 The feedback students
give teachers can be more
praise, or evalu- make mistakes, they are more powerful than the feedback
ation. Feedback is likely to use feedback for learning. teachers give students.
information about Dylan Wiliam, p. 30 Cris Tovani, p. 48
how we are doing

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in our efforts to

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reach a goal.
When we give a grade as part of
Grant Wiggins, p. 10
our feedback, students routinely
Students
read only as far as the grade.
need to know their
Peter Johnston, p. 64
learning target
the specific skill

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theyre supposed

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to learn or else
feedback is just
Most of the feedback someone telling
Effective feedback
that students receive about their them what to do.
occurs during the learning,
classroom work is from other stu- Susan Brookhart, p. 24
while there is still time
dentsand much of that feedback
to act on it. Jan Chappuis, p. 36
is wrong. John Hattie, p. 18

Source: The collective wisdom of authors published in the September 2012 issue of Educational Leadership: Feedback for
Learning. (Volume 70, Issue 1).

Educational Leadership / September 2012