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GRADING PRINCIPALS
Completion & Feedback | Effective Feedback | Modeling How To Use Feedback
Effective feedback is more than Grading formative work based on completion is important in the
just giving a student a number education process. A central question that I think about when
out of a number and letting that grading formative is, “Why grade everything students do while
be all. It says to the student they are still learning?” I break grading into three categories. Non-
"Someone read my work, cared graded formative, formative, and summative work. Non-graded
enough to think about it and formative work’s primary goal is to inform me of my teaching and
respond" validating themselves where I need to take time on. Graded formative, while informative
as learners. Effective feedback to me as a teacher, has a larger role for the student, to know where
is provided to students in a they need to focus as students. The grade for this type of formative
timely manner that says more work is based on effort and completion but as the teacher, I will
than just right or wrong, is provide effective feedback to assist in their learning. An important
targeted to how close the caveat is to not let the students realize that some of the formative
individual is to meeting the work will not be graded in a numerical sense. As an example,
goals, is able to be addressed during my internship, I realized very quickly that many students
and implemented, and tied to chief, and sometimes only motivation, is to complete the work, get
the goals of the assignment. the grade and do as little deeper thinking as possible. The idea is
Modeling & that they are "playing school." A way to combat this is by providing
effective feedback to students.
Importance of
Effective Feedback