Evaluate 1.1.2 Quality Feedback

As discussed in previous posts in my blog, feedback is essential to a student's education, especially in the area of math.  If a student doesn't know what they are doing wrong, they will just continue doing it wrong.  But as a teacher, we don't want to just be critical and tell students they are doing things incorrectly.  When I give feedback, I try to say it in a way to let them know I appreciate how hard they are working but they just got a certain thing mixed up or maybe did one operation incorrectly, which affected the rest of the problem.  I also try to balance out corrective feedback with complimentary feedback.  I like to try and point out the things that a student did correctly, especially if it was a difficult problem.  In my current traditional classroom math classes, I have a lot of students that will write me little notes on their papers about how bad they thought their graph is or how they think my bonus question is impossible.  I always like to respond to them in a fun way too!  It helps them feel more comfortable with me and know that I have a sense of humor too!  Since I don't currently have my own virtual classes, I do not have any examples of digital feedback to share on here.  But I have linked a few of my previous posts on feedback to show the importance that I think it plays in education.

Communicate 4.1.1 Evaluation Methods and Communication Practices

Communicate 4.1.2 Rubrics 

Communicate 4.2.1 Feedback

Communicate 4.2.2 Digital Feedback