Evaluate 1 - Quality Feedback

Teacher feedback is essential for students' to know where they messed up, and understand how they correct their mistakes.  Beyond giving a marking for right or wrong, teachers need to take the necessary time to give constructive comments to the student.  By knowing their students, teachers are able to give more detailed feedback.  For instance, if they know the student has been struggling with solving equations, but notices that they solved all of the equations right on the quiz, then they are able to praise them for that accomplishment.  This requires teachers to keep record of student data.  By using data, teachers are able to determine growth throughout the course.  

Feedback can be both observational and instructional.  Most teachers use observational feedback to correct student behavior.  We will pull students aside to ask them why they are upset, or if they realized they were being disrespectful to their partners when working in a group.  However, we can also use observational feedback as a quick means to assess student understanding.  By saying, "I noticed you were really close to the correct answer.  Can you show me what you did so we can fix it on future problems?"  These quick observations can often correct the problem before it negatively affects the students' grades.