3-2-1 TUESDAYS WITH MS NIV

Posted on 17 Jan 2023 by nivedita mukerjee

Issue #132, 17th January 2023

Feedback – to give, is as tricky as it is to receive. Feedback from a teacher to student, from a parent to child, and from a student to teacher? from child to parent? from peers and to peers? from supervisor to juniors or juniors to a supervisor? is it one way… is it two ways… is it always to be evidence-based? is it feelings based? is it to be discussed and formative? or just given and summative? What are your thoughts and experiences on feedback, I would love to hear them? As an educator, administrator, school advisor, and parent counselor I have worked through the feedback processes over the years and would like to learn from your experiences and thoughts.

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Three Images of the Week

Two Thoughts of the Week

“Feedback is the Breakfast of Champions”

– Ken Blanchard

“Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection”

– Mark Twain

One Video of the Week

Effective Feedback Without Marking

Nick Coles is a primary school teacher based in Peterborough. The school he works in recently made the national press when they decided to ‘scrap marking’ and instead focus on developing a more child-centered form of verbal feedback. The decision was taken by the school due to the fact that the process of marking had often become a demoralizing task for the teachers and an unhelpful form of feedback for pupils. Conferencing was introduced as the alternative – every child would spend 1:1 time with their teacher discussing their work. The process has proved successful so far and has been met with a positive reception from pupils who feel that they now better understand their learning.

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