What makes good feedback?

Lately we've been talking about what feedback is and how it helps our learning. Today we had a practice at giving each other quality feedback as comments on posts on this blog. Here are some of our ideas:

What is Feedback?

• It is kind of like if I clicked on someone's ideas and wrote a comment, it is feeding back what they need to work on (Gracie).
• You are giving a letter to someone (Na-myung).
• Sort of like a goal (Ella).
• What a person says about you (Emma).
• Someone does something new, and you tell them how good it was (Logan).
• If you forget something, it is alright to keep going (Na-myung).
• If you write something and you want to change it then you can (Kendra).

How does feedback help our learning?

• It helps your brain to think of things (Liam).
• It helps our learning by helping us with what we need to do next (Ella).
• It helps your learning when you do lots of writing (Lois).
• It's when you tell someone what they need to work on (Gracie).
• If someone doesn't know something, you can help them with an example (Tom).

Great feedback has...

1. A positive statement at the beginning that highlights something they did well.
2. Ideas for what they could do next time to improve or get better. For example:

• Something you could improve on for next time is...
• A next step is...
• Next time, you could...
  

Team 17 are going to practice giving each other great feedback by using this blog. Check the comments on posts for examples of this.