Fast and Effective Assessment -Improving Feedback and Reducing Correction

You can purchase a copy of Glen’s book by clicking on this link – Fast and Effective Assessment – Amba Press Providing helpful feedback and creating meaningful assessment tasks while keeping up with correction and managing a successful work/life balance is one of the biggest challenges of teaching. Fast and Effective Assessment investigates practical strategies for balancing these demands, offering teachers fast, formative strategies for providing feedback and assessing student performance in the time-poor environment of the everyday classroom. This sessions explores how making small adjustments to your questioning technique takes little additional preparation time but can have a profound effect on student outcomes. We discuss a score of practical techniques for eliciting and responding to your students as a whole class and one on one. Emphasis will be given to the everyday challenges of questioning: offering strategies for helping students who are are reluctant to answer questions or who offer incorrect responses, dealing with interruptions, eliciting more detailed answers and addressing student who dominate class discussion. Session Two – Learning Goals & Feedback Techniques: This sessions investigates strategies for helping students internalise learning goals and for giving students and receiving feedback on your students feedback towards those goals. We will explore a range of engaging modelling strategies to ensure students know what success really looks like as well as techniques for ensuring students not only know the learning purpose of the lesson but use this goal as compass point for guiding their learning. We will also explore feedback techniques for giving students immediate feedback in class that they act on rather than adding their work to already large pile of correction. The accent here will on offering feedback that is fast, formative and effective. This session discusses techniques for reducing written correction and encouraging students to take a more active role in the correction cycle. We explore practical techniques for correcting work more quickly as well as reducing the total amount of work you need to mark in the first place. One key element of this process is using third-stage correction tools which ensure students play a role in reviewing their own and their peers work and ensure students more readily take up your advice. By the end of the workshop participants would have explored the following: Glen Pearsall was a Teacher Leader and board member of the Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority. He works throughout the world as an educational consultant. Glen is the author of the best-selling And Gladly Teach (2010), The Literature Toolbox (2014), Fast and Effective Assessment(2019), Tilting Your Teaching(2020) and Classroom Dynamics (2024) He is the co-author of Literature for Life (2005) and Work Right (2011.) His ebook on questioning The Top Ten Strategic Questions for Teachers (2013) was translated into K