Ineffective and Effective Comments

Ineffective

Kate does an excellent job.

Outstanding Opening Statement

Kate needs more information for growth

Ineffective Feedback

• Kate needs to give better effort.
• Kate needs to be a team player.
• Kate is ill prepared.
• Kate always

Effective Feedback

Specific & Actionable & Repeatable

Tell a Short Story

Elements of Short Story

• What they did
• Why it was good or bad
• Compare it back to elements of the rubric

Kate does an excellent Job of bringing the real world into her classroom. This supports student engagement. For example, during her class she analyzed recent commercials about upcoming elections, and then had her students Tweet their perspectives about these commercials.