🚀WOL PLC Launch: Building Stronger Teaching Presence Together
Exciting Beginnings: Our First Professional Learning Community Meeting on Teaching Presence.
After a long day of teaching, our dedicated educators attended our first meeting as we launched our new Professional Learning Community, aligned with our annual focus on the Community of Inquiry. Over the next two months, we’ll work together to strengthen our teaching presence. As we begin this journey 🚀, I hope we’ve created a trusting environment 🤝 where you feel comfortable sharing your thoughts and ideas 💬. This quote really resonated with me, highlighting the power of sharing our knowledge with one another 🧠✨.
📢 Enhancing Teaching Presence Through Active Feedback
One of the ways that we discussed during our PLC yesterday to help enhance teaching presence is by providing students with frequent, timely, helpful, and supportive feedback 📚💬. As I began to gather additional resources with you, I found this post that really resonated with me. Impact posted, “Feedback to pupils should change the pupil, not just the piece of work. Take a look at our sketchnote for active feedback tasks informed by research that help pupils think deeply about their learning .”🤔📖
As you review this sketchnote 📝, what is one active feedback strategy you could incorporate into your student feedback to strengthen your teaching presence? 💡✏️ Leave a comment below 💬 to share what you plan to try and why.
🧠 Encouraging Thoughtful Responses: Key Principles of Effective Feedback
As I reviewed The Main Idea summary of Dylan Wiliam’s book, Embedded Formative Assessment, one section titled “A Few Principles of Effective Feedback” stood out to me. One principle in particular caught my attention: “Feedback should cause thinking. Rather than causing a student to react emotionally, effective feedback should cause students to think.”
What are your thoughts on how this might look in your class? 🤔💭 Leave a comment below to share your ideas with us! 💬✨
What a great resource! Loved the PLC, too!