“Wow, that is some really bad handwriting, isn’t it?” “Don’t worry about why that’s there; that’s just something I wrote for myself.” These two comments are often heard in classrooms. Have you ever been on the receiving end of one or both of these? How about on the other end; the end that’s actually making the comment? Studies show that teacher feedback and comments are important to students. So why is it that some of the comments that teachers leave are either illegible (chicken scratch handwriting) or inscrutable (cannot decipher their relevance to the piece of writing)? I believe as teachers, we try to make comments quickly to make sure we get our thoughts out on paper. We don’t want to miss anything that needs corrected, or forget about a point that we liked while reading the student’s writing, so we make quick marks or leave small comments as placeholders. We need something to remind us where to go back to so we can leave more in depth comments at the end or in a conference with the student. I have also seen small markings on papers that can only be associated with cave markings. They may be check marks or lines or even scribbles. What are they there for? What do they mean? This confusion stemming from the markings or illegible comments can create serious student anxiety. It is important to remember that there is a person on the other end of that writing and they will be looking at whatever comments are on their work, so the comments need to be legible
Positive re-enforcement is a great way to encourage learning, learning by reward encourages the learner into learning mode. It is good for those learners with low self-esteem and will encourage them to build upon their own success, self-evaluate and eventually be able to constructively criticise their own work as they go. Again this will be a positive step forward and should be encouraged as a means of assessment for both learner and teacher.1
Murray is insightful not only to instructors but also to learners. Murray argues that the challenge facing writing is the fact that teachers have treated it as a product rather than a process and the same concept passed on to students. The author holds that the main problem with this view is that students get to receive irrelevant criticisms that are not related to their learning goals. While I tend to agree with the author based on the arguments presented, it is notable that Murray has paid little attention to the idea of education in the contemporary world. In most learning institutions, the outcome of the writing is considered more than the process. As a teacher paying attention to the process of writing but not be consistent with the students, who are mostly driven by
Ballenger an accurate statement when he said that “Most of us have lurking in our past some high priest of good grammar whose angry scribbling occupied the margins of our paper.” Most teachers overlooked what we had written and just looked for grammatical errors. This always made me feel like my writing was never good enough. This discouraged when it came to writing papers because I always felt like I was just writing to have my essay covered in errors that I needed to fix. After getting so many red markings on my essays I always questioned my writing. In my head I could not figure out what I was doing wrong and I did not know how to fix my writing. It became really stressful to write essays and I always dreaded when
Discuss the importance of receiving and responding to feedback on your scholarly writing. What you have learned about the scholarly writing process up to this point in your academic career? And how will feedback and peer-review help you to write a critical review of the research literature?
For these writers, responding to student writing is more complex than a simple comment or two on a paper along with a grade. Both Elbow and Straub stress the complexity of what makes a good response to a paper; their most notable similarity is the call for attention to the writer and the context in which the paper was written. Straub includes taking into consideration the “set of circumstances that accompany the writing,” as well as “the writer’s particular interest and aims,... [the] class, and the stage of drafting” (138). In order to best serve the writer, the student or teacher responding to the paper must be able to distinguish the writer’s purpose and intentions in writing the paper, in particular [something]. As Elbow suggests that teacher
Annotating what I struggle with, not what others think is difficult helps me customize my book to my benefit. It’s about helping you understand your reading and helps you out. Being graded on annotating puts extra stress on students who already are having a hard time understanding the book they’re reading. People learn in many different ways, some
Currently people see me as an informal leader that has high personal standards. I am seen as honest, trustworthy and dependable. I am also seen as someone who does not always stand up against others to make them responsible for their own actions. People do not always feel that I give feedback in a way that enhances performance. In my future nursing career as an APN, it is important that I provide prompt honest feedback to my patients regardless if it is a difficult discussion.
Whether a leader defines success as career progression, sphere of influence, or the continual improvement of their management skills, there is one singular fact that all leaders must grasp in order to be effective and impactful: they have to become great providers and receivers of feedback. To grow in one?s ability to give and receive feedback, one ought to begin with learning to receive feedback well by recognizing
Besides providing either direct or indirect feedback or a combination of both, teachers also write comments on students’ papers. Anson in Treglia (2008) explained that the way teachers comment is influenced by their belief system. Anson classified teachers into dualistic responders, relativistic responders, and reflective responders. Dualistic responders are guided clear-cut concept of right and wrong, focus mostly on surface features, and assume the tone of critical judges or evaluators. Relativistic responders focus on content not on linguistic and rhetorical aspects of writing. Finally, the reflective responders focus on ideas and stylistic devices.
It is appropriate to seek guidance from others when I am unsure about the objectives, policies, systems procedures and values because that way I avoid any errors, and avoid slipping away from conforming to organisation’s aims.
Practice is what makes a kid better at what it is that they are working on. Teacher's corrections will help student's go far in life on an academic level if they are willing to succeed. One of the main ways teacher’s grade is on projects. A key part of a project is handwriting. The student’s
In what ways are teacher feedback and teacher needs taken into account when developing Professional Development? Teacher feedback and needs are taken into consideration as ways to determine how they can grow in knowledge and gain professional development for themselves. These are important bases to see where they can improve themselves or what kinds of training they need to satisfy their deficiencies or lack of knowledge and training.
The interpersonal communication skill of feedback is essential for hospital nurses to give a suitable care to each patient because it enables the nurses to learn, and improve their motivation, performance and efficiency that assist to achieve their goal which is to help the patients heal. The interpersonal communication skill of feedback is a system of conveying information between two people regarding the receiver’s performance (Baker et al. 2013). In general, feedback is employed to deliver information about interim objectives and recent behaviour or performance, and to guide individuals on expected enhancement and outcomes for the organisation (Baker et al. 2013). Receiving feedback provides individuals with information on their strengths and weaknesses, which allow them to have an opportunity to build self-improvement plans if the individuals are willing to change their behaviour or performance (De Janasz et al. 2014). Suitable feedback within an organisation results in positive behaviour changes which improve efficiency of the organisation (Baker et al. 2013). There is evidence showing that supportive feedback employments promote improved openness to feedback, increased feedback-seeking behaviour, and inspiration to use feedback and change performance behaviour (Baker et al. 2013). When nurses identify feedback as a helpful resource that can enhance the quality of care, feedback can lead to an outstanding advancement promoting the nurses’ well-being (Giesbers et al.
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The ability of a student to learn effectively and comprehend what they have learned depends on the interaction of multiple factors. These factors include the level of connectedness between the student and their teacher, the role of a parent in motivating the student to learn as well as the student’s own effort. For a sixth grader, who shows fluctuating classroom performance with better test performances but poor on homework, a partnership between the student, teacher and parents can be forged to improve the student’s performance. This would be done through data collection on their progress by observation, documenting, measuring and monitoring the data for implementation.