Read & Respond Like a Real Reader

1. To address peer-to-peer feedback, We’ll explore Cleo Martin’s Maxim: Read & Respond Like a Real Reader

4. Constructivist Feedback Assessment standards must be actively learnedat every stage: from understand development process, requirements, criteria and standards Three key pointsof engagement discussing assessment criteria before work begins developing own questions for peer assessment decision-making with feedback in finalizing work “Research confirms that when students are actively engaged in the assessment process in this way, they will produce better work.” Adopting a social constructivist approach to assessment in three easy steps!

5. 4Rs – Only Connect

6. “What we need most as writers • is…an accurate account of • what goes on inside readers’ heads • as they read our words.” • Jeff Paschke-Johannes on Peter Elbow and Patricia Belanoff’sA Community of Writers: A Workshop Course in Writing. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1989, 1995

7. It Takes a Process to Create http://stevendkrause.com/tprw/introduction.html

8. It Takes Power to Compose Writing with power also means getting power over your self and over the writing process: knowing what you are doing as you write; being in charge; having control; not feeling stuck or helpless or intimidated. - Peter Elbow / U Massachusetts-Amherst

9. Feedback Is Constructivist

10. FeedbackIs * Responsive * Formative * Suggestive * Forward Looking * and Is NOT Evaluation

11. Helpful Feedback Is Concerned with… Task – overall & components Audience – characteristics & context Purpose – writerly & readerly concerns Readability – surface & rhetorical features Undertow – underdeveloped & unnecessary Flow – sign posts & transitions Finished – smoothed surface features

12. Feedback is Aligned with Assignment Evaluation Criteria

13. Feedback Is Specific • Summarize – Narratives, Dialogues, Comparisons • Tell – Stories, Scenes, Portraits • Show – Ideas, Options, Missed Moments • Point – 1st Thoughts, Asking • Connections – Internal, External, Missed, Hyped • Integrity – Alignment with goals– of assignment and relative to writer’s audience, purpose

14. Feedback Is Specific • Responding to Organization • Responding to Content • Responding to Surface Features

15. Feedback Begins with Questions Plus / Delta Feedback Simple pattern for robust, dynamic, direct, timely feedback in written and spoken form that feeds forward & is used by – and benefits – all who participate in the process. Adaptable across courses, assignments and disciplines.

16. What Works?What Could Work Better?  Plus  Delta • What works? aka  • What am I doing that improves my learning? peer learning? student learning? • How does this communicate to others what I value in / about / because of learning? • What could work better? aka  • What specific changes would improve my learning? peer learning? student learning? • How might a change better communicate to others what I value in / about / because of learning? Early – Middle – Later Stages Self – Peer – Teacher Feedback

17. Let’s Explore Some Ideas

18. Assidēresit near – sit by – sit in council – sit besidewatch over – assist as counsellor be present in court as supporter