Discover teacher, author, and Classcraft ambassador Paul Cancellieri's presentation on student feedback. During the webinar “Student Feedback: The Cornerstone of Classroom Learning” Mr. Cancellieri will discuss his plan to maximize learning through a feedback-based approach, and explain how Classcraft can help with each step.

1. Presented by Paul Cancellieri, Science Teacher, Grade 8
Student Feedback:
The Cornerstone of Classroom Learning
Paul Cancellieri
@mrscienceteach
pcancellieri@me.com

2. The Problem with Grades
“The most ubiquitous form of evaluation, grading, is so
much a part of the school landscape that we easily overlook
its utter uselessness as actionable feedback. Grades are
here to stay, no doubt — but that doesn’t mean we should
rely on them as a major source of feedback.”
— Wiggins, “Seven Keys to Effective Feedback”
Educational Leadership, 70(1), p. 16
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3. Grades vs. Feedback
Grades
➔ Unclear information
➔ High stakes
➔ “The grade is the end”
➔ Co-dependent students
Feedback
➔ Specific information
➔ Guidance to improve
➔ Growth mindset
➔ Developing independent
learners

4. How Do We Provide Feedback?

5. How Do We Provide Feedback?
Where Am I Going?
Help students recognize
the learning targets and
understand what they
must be able to do.

6. How Do We Provide Feedback?
Where Am I Going?
Help students recognize
the learning targets and
understand what they
must be able to do.
How Am I Doing?
Give students the tools
to measure their
progress and monitor
their mastery.

7. How Do We Provide Feedback?
Where Am I Going?
Help students recognize
the learning targets and
understand what they
must be able to do.
How Am I Doing?
Give students the tools
to measure their
progress and monitor
their mastery.
Where Do I Go
from Here?
Develop students’ ability
to decide what comes
next in their learning
journey and what they
need to be successful.

8. Product vs. Process
Grades are a measure of what students know
and what they can do. We use assessments
to measure this accurately and grades to
provide mastery information to students,
parents, and colleagues.
Work habits and behaviors are about how
students learn. These are independent from their
mastery of the learning targets, but indirectly
affect it. We show their importance by rewarding
them through tools like Classcraft.

9. Where Am I Going?

10. How Am I Doing?

11. Where Do I Go from Here?
Kaizena.com
Feedback tool
for Google Docs

12. Classcraft & Feedback
➔ Grades and feedback are focused on
measuring mastery of learning targets and
helping students improve their mastery, not
behaviors
➔ Teach and encourage positive habits through
Classcraft
➔ Don’t let Classcraft powers change the
accuracy of grades and feedback
➔ Use Classcraft and other tools to celebrate
progress

13. Questions?

14. Stay in Touch
Paul Cancellieri
Science Teacher, Grade 8
@mrscienceteach
pcancellieri@me.com
classcraft.com
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