422: 7 Research-Backed Steps to Better, Easier Feedback in ELA
About this episode
Betsy Potash shares research-backed strategies for providing better and easier feedback in ELA, drawing parallels between baby sleep advice and teacher feedback challenges.
When my daughter was a baby, she was a terrible sleeper. I spent many early morning hours trying to find advice online from research, experts, and parents in similar situations. As surely as there was any piece of potentially helpful advice, there existed its polar opposite. "Keep the baby near you, so it can form a healthy attachment," one expert article might read. "Let the baby soothe itself, or it will never be independent," read the next. I sometimes feel the baby sleep debate is similar to the teacher feedback one. When it comes to this absolutely vital issue, one that plagues teachers and often drives them out of the profession, why can't research provide a more solid answer? One book calls for one approach, but there's another in the next. And the next. And the next. Here's the thing. Baby sleep and writing feedback have something in common - they're complex, they're individual, and they're so difficult that many, many people have tried to offer creative solutions. So instead of lamenting all these often frustratingly different possible approaches anymore, I decided to go hunting for treasure. Today on the podcast, I'm sharing my distillation of the feedback landscape…
People in this episode
Host: Betsy Potash
Topics covered
- teacher feedback
- education
- ELA
- research-backed strategies
- student support
- teacher well-being
Keywords
- feedback
- ELA
- education
- teacher strategies
- student engagement
- research
- creative solutions
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