Are Your Students Ready for Feedback?

Are Your Students Ready for Feedback?

“For feedback to have maximum effect, students have to be expected to use it to improve their work and, in many cases, taught how to do so.” –Saphier et al (2008) Feedback is an essential part of teaching and learning, and we’re all familiar with the...
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Multiple Exposures

Summer Institute Day 3 Session 1: Multiple Exposures “Forgetting is a feature, not a bug.” – Popov, Marevic, Rummel, & Reder, 2019 3 Strategies for Helping Students Remember What They Learn We often think of forgetting as a failure in memory, but...
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Feedback

Summer Institute Day 3 Session 2: Feedback “Feedback is the formal and explicit comments that someone, usually a teacher, provides to students about their academic work.” David Nicol (2021) The Feedback session for Summer Institute 2022, focused on the...
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Explicit Teaching

Summer Institute Session 1: Explicit Teaching Explicit Teaching is “Instruction that does not leave anything to chance and does not make assumptions about skills and knowledge that children will acquire on their own.” -Torgesen, 2004 In the kick-off...