Recently John Hattie published a new professional text titled Visible Learning Feedback. The content of the book is to provide ways to educators to give timely, specific feedback to all students in ways that have been proven to show the most student achievement growth and impact. I have just embarked on reading the text, but wanted to share a few key takeaways so far....
1. The key to providing feedback is to allow the student to have a clear visions of the next steps they may take in their learning path. Feedback should not be used for commenting on where they already are learning or show how to do the right process of learning. Feedback should be held for clarifying learning steps and providing a clear vision for the student.
2. Feedback should fill the gap between what is understood and what is aimed to be understood.
3. the greatest motivational benefits will come from focusing feedback on: qualities of the child's work not the comparison with others, specific ways the child can improve during the next steps in learning, and comparing a child's work to their own previous work.
4. Students need to be explicitly taught on how to receive, interpret and use the feedback they are provided.
5. Students need to shift out of their comfort zone while learning and push toward the challenge zone to see next steps in learning.
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