Challenging Learning Through Feedback
How to Get the Type, Tone and Quality of Feedback Right Every Time

Foreword by Larry Ainsworth

January 2017 | 184 pages | Corwin

Using feedback to enhance learning

Feedback has the potential to dramatically improve student learning – if done correctly. In fact, providing high quality feedback is one of the most critical roles of a teacher. But if feedback is not done correctly it can have a minimal – or even negative effect – on learning. Challenging Learning Through Feedback provides educators with the tools they need to establish clear learning intentions and success criteria in order to craft high quality feedback and avoid common feedback mistakes. Readers will learn

When feedback is (and isn’t) working
How to design feedback so that it answers three essential questions
Strategies for crafting clear Learning Intentions and Success Criteria
How to teach students to give high quality feedback to themselves and others

Written by educational innovators James Nottingham and Jill Nottingham, this book is full of specific examples for educators who want to understand the qualities of excellent feedback and how to craft it.

"Feedback – a noun or a verb? A separate practice or an integral part of the learning process? Something we do ‘to students’ or ‘with students’? The Nottinghams sort it all out for us – the ‘what,’ ‘why,’ and ‘how’ of the process and the practice of feedback.”
Barb Pitchford, Co-author
Leading Impact Teams: Building a Culture of Efficacy (2016)

"Finally a practical book on feedback for teachers! It is written with the teacher in mind, lesson plan in hand, and relevant to all in education. The perfect school-wide study book!"
Lisa Cebelak, Education Consultant
Grand Rapids, MI

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List of Figures

The Challenging Learning Story

Foreword by Larry Ainsworth

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Contributors

Introduction

The Language of Learning

Chapter 1: Setting the Scene

1.0 Why Read Yet Another Book About Feedback?

1.1 What Is Feedback?

1.2 Assessment: To Sit Beside

1.3 Four Levels of Feedback

1.4 Matching Feedback to Levels of Understanding (Using the SOLO Taxonomy)

1.5 Praise vs. Feedback

1.6 Does Grading Count as Feedback?

1.7 Other Types of Feedback

1.8 Review

1.9 Next Steps

Chapter 2: Current Reality

2.0 What Is Your Feedback Like Now?

2.1 Characteristics of Excellent Feedback

2.2 Corrective, Component and Comprehensive Feedback

2.3 Extending Feedback

2.4 Review

2.5 Next Steps

Chapter 3: Creating a Culture for Feedback

3.0 Feedback Utopia

3.1 Ten Ways to Build Toward Feedback Utopia

3.2 Review

3.3 Next Steps

Chapter 4: Goals Before Feedback

4.0 Feedback Should Refer to Learning Goals

4.1 Long-Term and Short-Term Goals

4.2 Learning Intentions (LI) and Success Criteria (SC)

4.3 How to Design Effective LI and SC

4.4 Example LI and SC to Use With Five- to Eleven-Year-Olds

4.5 Example LI and SC to Use With Eleven- to Eighteen-Year-Olds

4.6 Learning Goals for Working Together

4.7 Review

4.8 Next Steps

Chapter 5: Taxonomies to Support Goal Setting

5.0 Learning How to Learn

5.1 Using Taxonomies Wisely

5.2 Bloom’s Taxonomy (and Beyond)

5.3 The EDUCERE Taxonomy of Thinking Skills

5.4 The ASK Model

5.5 Footnote to Taxonomies: Beware!

5.6 Review

5.7 Next Steps

Chapter 6: Feedback and the SOLO Taxonomy

6.0 The SOLO Taxonomy

6.1 How the SOLO Taxonomy Relates to the Learning Challenge

6.2 How the SOLO Taxonomy Relates to Feedback

6.3 How the SOLO Taxonomy Relates to Learning

6.4 The SOLO Treehouse

6.5 Review

6.6 Next Steps

Chapter 7: Seven Steps to Feedback

7.0 Background

7.1 Using the Seven Steps to Feedback

7.2 The Seven Steps to Feedback: Some Final Thoughts

7.3 But There’s No Time!

7.4 Review

7.5 Next Steps

Chapter 8: Tools for Feedback

8.0 Using the Learning Challenge to Generate Feedback Questions

8.1 Learning Challenge Feedback Questions: Stage 1

8.2 Learning Challenge Feedback Questions: Stage 2

8.3 Learning Challenge Feedback Questions: Stage 3

8.4 Learning Challenge Feedback Questions: Stage 4

8.5 Learning Detectives

8.6 Examples of Clues for Learning Detectives to Search For

8.7 Review

8.8 Next Steps and Further Reading

Repertoire and Judgment Notes

References

Index

Key features

Teachers and educators will find:

How to know when your feedback is (and isn't) working
How to craft feedback so that it answers the three essential questions

Humorous vignettes of feedback done right and wrong

Practical strategies for crafting clear Learning Intentions and Success Criteria
Strategies, templates, and rubrics for providing feedback tied to learning goals
How to teach students to provide high quality feedback to themselves and others

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