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My Greatest Teaching Problem Was Feedback. Here’s How Research Helped Me Solve It.

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I implemented writing reflections to help students recall their feedback from prior assignments and collaborated with a colleague to develop a teacher guided peer review system, which eventually yielded an app called Floop that made the peer review data visible and simpler to manage.

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Creating Inclusive Classrooms with Co-Teaching and the Station Rotation

Catlin Tucker

In mixed-ability groups, peer review is incorporated, allowing students to give and receive feedback, fostering a collaborative learning environment. In mixed-ability groups, students can work together to evaluate and discuss their evidence, with higher-level students leading the analysis.

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Creative Approaches for Developing Essay Writing Skills

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Collaborative Writing and Peer Review The adage “two heads are better than one” holds true in the realm of writing, as collaborative efforts and peer review can yield invaluable insights and constructive feedback.

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What Research Says About Driving Growth for Writers With Practice, Feedback and Revision

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Scaffolded practice connects instruction to feedback When writing, students must engage in a multi-step process of goal-setting, planning, drafting, evaluating, revising, and editing. Assessing one’s own writing and providing feedback to peers both help to move students forward as writers.

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How to Demonstrate Confidence in Your Teaching

Edsurge

Our strength may already be worn down by going through a challenging promotion and tenure process, or after years of having our research evaluated by peer reviewers who sometimes reject work without giving effective feedback; or reading negative comments from students on our course evaluations.

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Brightspace Excellence Awards highlight innovation in online learning

eSchool News

To ensure successful adoption of Brightspace across its 132 schools, the district partnered with D2L to develop and implement strategies to increase teacher capacity and adoption of effective practices, providing peer coaching, models of instruction, and effective tools to enhance instructional practices.

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A Pilot Test of Revision Assistant and What We Learned in the Process

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Our literacy coach and English teacher, Heidi Crocker, found a product from Turnitin – Revision Assistant – that used a powerful technology to assess writing and would turn the data it uncovered into feedback that students could apply to their essays immediately. The instant baseline scores allowed our team to mix-and-match units.

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