During the 2020 Fall Semester, three workshops will be offered about providing feedback to students (full series recordings below). This series of workshops aims to provide educators with an interdisciplinary space and community to consider ways of providing effective and meaningful feedback to students. The professional development provided in these workshops will offer peer-to-peer interaction with information and discussion that considers feedback strategies and tools across disciplines. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about strategies and tools for providing feedback to students, exchange ideas about feedback, and practice and implement ideas about feedback for course design, pedagogy, and practice.
By participating in all three workshops, participants will be able to:
- Identify characteristics of meaningful feedback and its importance for student learning
- Reflect on ways we already use feedback in our classrooms
- Consider opportunities and challenges for feedback in our classrooms
- Generate ideas with colleagues on how to implement feedback in the classroom (both small and large classrooms)
- Develop and revise ideas for implementing feedback in the classroom, based on workshop discussions and peer feedback
- Create short- and long-term goals for implementing ideas into the classroom
- Connect with educators across campus to build community and conversation
The Friday Feedback Series took place via zoom:
Foundations of Feedback: Developing meaningful feedback for students
Synchronously Facilitated: Friday, October 23, 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST
View recording here
View workshop slides here
During the first workshop, facilitators talked about research-based strategies for feedback and why providing feedback to students is important for their learning experiences. Participants had time to discuss opportunities and challenges related to student feedback and worked together to brainstorm ideas for implementing feedback strategies in their classrooms. The first workshop of this series provided a foundation for subsequent workshops while providing information about and modeling the use of feedback strategies and tools.
Make a Plan: Identify tools and strategies you’ll use to provide student feedback
Synchronously Facilitated: Friday, November 6, 12:00-1:00 p.m. EST
View recording here
View workshop slides and other resources here
During the second workshop, participants brought back developed ideas for providing feedback in their classrooms. Participants worked together to plan ways in which meaningful feedback can be provided to students in their classrooms. Participants were asked to consider the benefits and constraints of student feedback and developed research-based, manageable plans to use feedback strategies and tools in the classroom. Feedback plans were tailored to the needs of participants and their classrooms.
Practice and Implementation of Feedback Tools and Strategies
Synchronously Facilitated: Friday, November 20, 12 p.m.-1:00 p.m. EST
View recording here
View workshop slides and other resources here
The final session of the Friday Feedback Series was structured so that participants could receive feedback from fellow participants and facilitators to develop and refine their plan for implementing feedback in the classroom. Participants engaged in large-group discussion and one-on-one time to practice and plan for implementation of using feedback strategies and tools in their classrooms. Before we ended the session, we talked about how to stay connected and continue learning about and implementing strategies for student feedback.
For more information, contact Ann Burke at burkean1@msu.edu
