Feedback for Learning: Implementing Formative Assessment (FutureLearn)

Feedback for Learning: Implementing Formative Assessment (FutureLearn)
Learn how to give pupil feedback through formative assessment that supports student learning without increasing your workload. Help your students benefit from formative feedback. Marking has been identified as an area of excessive workload for teachers, but feedback is crucial for students to improve their understanding. On this course, you’ll learn evidence-based approaches for using written and oral feedback to support student learning, without increasing your workload.

This course does not have open access anymore.

You’ll learn how to develop a classroom culture that encourages formative dialogue and prepares students to receive, act upon, and learn from teacher feedback.

The course adopts a reflective approach and will encourage changes in classroom practice that will have a direct impact on student learning.


Syllabus


Week 1: What is effective feedback?

Week 2: Feedback that makes a difference

Week 3: Teacher and student roles in feedback


What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

- Apply approaches that use students’ errors to maximise learning as part of classroom culture.

- Identify different types of feedback interaction within your teaching.

- Develop a range of strategies to involve students in oral and written feedback.

- Develop a formative classroom culture that prepares students to be responsive to feedback.


Who is the course for?

This course is designed for primary, secondary, and further education teachers.

Classroom examples are provided from a science and mathematics context, but the course is suitable for teachers of STEM and non-STEM subjects.

You do not need any prior experience other than marking and facilitating lessons.