How might we foster a community of learners where everyone bravely and fiercely seeks feedback?
I was at EduCon in Philadelphia when this tweet arrived last week.
Am I showing enough work? How do I know? What if we partner, students and teachers, to seek feedback, clarity, and guidance?
Success inspires success.
Yesterday, I dropped by Kato‘s classroom to work on the next math assessment and found our learners working together to apply math and to improve communication.
Now, I was just sneaking in to drop off and pick up papers. But, how could I turn down requests for feedback?
Here’s the #showyourwork #LL2LU progression in the classroom:
I can show more than one way to find a solution to the problem.
I can describe or illustrate how I arrived at a solution in a way that the reader understands without talking to me.
I can find a correct solution to the problem.
I can ask questions to help me work toward a solution to the problem.
And here’s one child and her work. “Ms. Gough, will you look at my work? Can you understand it without asking me questions? Is is clear to you?”
I see connected words, pictures, and numbers. I like the color coding for the different size bags. I appreciate reading the sentences that explain the numbers and her thinking. I also witnessed this young learner improve her work and her thinking while watching me read her work. She knew what she wanted to add, because she wished I knew why she made the final choice. I’d call this Level 4 work.
What if we foster a community of learners who bravely and fiercely seek feedback?