Flash Feedback [Grades 6-12]

Beat Burnout with Time-saving Best Practices for Feedback

For ELA teachers, the danger of burnout is all too real. Inundated with seemingly insurmountable piles of papers to read, respond to, and grade, many teachers often find themselves struggling to balance differentiated, individualized feedback with the one resource they are already overextended on time.

Flash Feedback seeks to alleviate these struggles by taking teachers to the next level of strategic feedback by sharing:

• How to craft effective, efficient, and more memorable feedback

• Strategies for scaffolding students through the meta-cognitive work necessary for real revision

• A plan for how to create a culture of feedback, including lessons for how to train students in meaningful peer response

• Downloadable online tools for teacher and student use

Beat burnout with time-saving best practices for feedback

For ELA teachers, the danger of burnout is all too real. Inundated with seemingly insurmountable piles of papers to read, respond to, and grade, many teachers often find themselves struggling to balance differentiated, individualized feedback with the one resource they are already overextended on time.

Matthew Johnson offers classroom-tested solutions that not only alleviate the feedback-burnout cycle, but also lead to significant growth for students. These time-saving strategies built on best practices for feedback help to improve relationships, ignite motivation, and increase student ownership of learning.

Flash Feedback also takes teachers to the next level of strategic feedback by sharing:

• How to craft effective, efficient, and more memorable feedback

• Strategies for scaffolding students through the meta-cognitive work necessary for real revision

• A plan for how to create a culture of feedback, including lessons for how to train students in meaningful peer response

• Downloadable online tools for teacher and student use
  Moving beyond the theory of working smarter, not harder, Flash Feedback works deeper by developing practices for teacher efficiency that also boost effectiveness by increasing students self-efficacy, improving the clarity of our messages, and ultimately creating a classroom centered around meaningful feedback.

  Autorentext

  Matthew Johnson is an English teacher from Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is also a husband and father, and over the last decade he has read, thought, and written about how teachers can balance teaching with all of the other important roles they play in their lives. His work has been published by Principal Leadership, Edutopia, ASCD, The National Writing Project, and the National Council of Teachers of English, and his weekly thoughts on how to be a better teacher of writing in less time can be found on his website www.matthewmjohnson.com. When not teaching, reading, or writing, he can often be found in the kitchen, his garden, or out on a run through the gently rolling hills of Southeast Michigan.

  Klappentext

  Beat burnout with time-saving best practices for feedback

  For ELA teachers, the danger of burnout is all too real. Inundated with seemingly insurmountable piles of papers to read, respond to, and grade, many teachers often find themselves struggling to balance differentiated, individualized feedback with the one resource they are already overextended on-time.

  Matthew Johnson offers classroom-tested solutions that not only alleviate the feedback-burnout cycle, but also lead to significant growth for students. These time-saving strategies built on best practices for feedback help to improve relationships, ignite motivation, and increase student ownership of learning.

  Flash Feedback also takes teachers to the next level of strategic feedback by sharing:

• How to craft effective, efficient, and more memorable feedback

• Strategies for scaffolding students through the meta-cognitive work necessary for real revision

• A plan for how to create a culture of feedback, including lessons for how to train students in meaningful peer response

• Downloadable online tools for teacher and student use
  Moving beyond the theory of working smarter, not harder, Flash Feedback works deeper by developing practices for teacher efficiency that also boost effectiveness by increasing students' self-efficacy, improving the clarity of our messages, and ultimately creating a classroom centered around meaningful feedback.

  Inhalt

  Foreword
  Acknowledgments
  Introduction
  CHAPTER 1. Giving Strong Feedback in Less Time: The Efficiencies
  Time-Saving Tenet #1: Don't Read and Respond to Every Paper
  Time-Saving Tenet #2: Use More Targeted Feedback
  Time-Saving Tenet #3: Wait Until October to "Give" Grades
  Time-Saving Tenet #4: Be a Teacher, Not an Editor
  Time-Saving Tenet #5: Go Digital
  Time-Saving Tenet #6: Automate Some Parts
  Time-Saving Tenet #7: Get in the Feedback Mindset
  The Last Word on Efficient Feedback
  CHAPTER 2. Giving More Effective Feedback: The Best Practices
  Effectiveness Element #1: Feedback Should Be Provided by an Interested Reader, Not a Detached Authority
  Effectiveness Element #2: Feedback Should Provide a Path Forward, Not an Autopsy
  Effectiveness Element #3: Most Feedback Should Be Focused on Actions, Not Reactions
  Effectiveness Element #4: Feedback and Assessment Should Be Separated
  The Last Word on Effective Feedback
  CHAPTER 3. Making Feedback Memorable: The Feedback Cycle
  Setting Goals for Improvement
  Receiving Feedback Through Conferences
  Reflecting on What's Been Accomplished . . . and What's Yet to Master
  The Last Word on Memorable Feedback
  CHAPTER 4. Beyond the Text: Using Feedback to Cultivate Positive Mindsets and Beliefs
  Wise Interventions to Turn Around Problematic Mindsets
  "Writing Is Scary": Feedback to Decrease Students' Fear of Writing
  "When Will I Write Like This in the Real World?": Using Feedback to Increase Students' Perceived Value of Writing
  "I'm Not a Writer": Using Feedback to Help Students Identify as Writers
  The Last Word on Feedback for Positive Mindsets and Beliefs
  CHAPTER 5. Democratizing Feedback: Teaching Peer Response and Self-Review
  The Power (and Pitfalls) of Peer Response
  Teaching Effective Peer Response
  The Power of Self-Review
  Teaching Self-Review
  The Last Word on Peer Response and Self-Review
  Epilogue
  References
  Index