Responsive teaching: the importance of student feedback to adjust your lesson
Written By: Author(s): Tom Sherrington and Sara Stafford
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Teachers need dynamic feedback from students about their learning to adjust the flow of instruction.
Teaching is a two-way interactive process; teachers and students need feedback from each other about how the learning process is going.
What does it mean?
This is one part of ‘formative assessment’. Classroom research indicates that effective teachers ask more questions to more students, in a more in-depth way, checking for understanding across all students.
Teachers need a good flow of dynamic feedback from students about their learning and the success of the teaching to adjust the flow of instruction. This allows them to give students the right feedback, the right level of reinforcement and the most appropriate questions and information.
In essence, we need feedback just as much as our students so we can adjust and maximise our effectiveness.
What are the implications for teachers?
You can’t see learning so you need constant feedback from your students about the extent of their understanding. This means asking lots of questions to multiple students, with probing excha
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This article was published in August 2018 and reflects the terminology and understanding of research and evidence in use at the time. Some terms and conclusions may no longer align with current standards. We encourage readers to approach the content with an understanding of this context.
What year was this published?
It was first published in August 2018.