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Promoting Further Learning

Promoting Further Learning is about what happens, after assessment has taken place, to support the student with further learning. Providing appropriate support is a skilled act of teaching that must both leave students with responsibility and motivation for their learning and also help them to advance that learning. It is at the heart of effective teaching and is a capability that we never perfect.

Absolum, M. (2006)



﻿ Promoting Further Learning and Feedback

Feedback is the tool used to promote further learning as it is used so the student receives the appropriate level of support for their next learning steps. Feedback is given regularly and allows time for students to act on the feedback. It is about teachers broadening their feedback strategies, not just asking questions.





How we provide suggestions for improvement is critical in 'closing the gap' for students. Improvement is more likely if we use the kind of feedback that best meets the need of the student.



Examples of 'Closing the gap' prompts in Writing

We are learning how to describe a character in detailReminder Prompt:e.g. How could you make the description of the character more striking?Scaffold Prompt:Question: Why don't you try using a simile to describe how he eats?Directive: Use a simile to compare him with something.Unfinished sentence: He chewed his food like a ..........



Consider other ways of promoting further learning Explanation Do I need to explain something a bit more?

Used whenever the student or class have not understood a concept, idea, or skill and the best way to help them move frowared is to show, tell or explain again, maybe at a different pace or in a different way. Look for alternative ways of explaining to the normal verbal methods. Try models, examples, comparisons.

Reinforcement ﻿﻿ Which Criteria have they met?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Reinforcemnt is something that occurs as a consequence of learning that rewards and consolidates that learning. It can be intrinsic or extrinsic. Reinforcement is about reinforcing the learning, not the performance and not the student. Most re-inforcement is short and immediate.

<span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 230%; text-align: center;">﻿ <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">Learning Conversation <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Is there something bigger/more fundamental that we need to have a conversation about? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">A learning conversation can be between a teacher and a student, or between student and student. (a learning focused relationship exists). <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Further learning is promoted by the exploration of the concept or ideas under discussion.

<span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 230%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">Feed Forward <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Does the student need to be moved forward to the next step?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Feed forward is a strategy that keeps the student focused on the wider relevance - the bigger picture of the learning and gives them a sense of how their learning is progressing within this. Conversations on where to next strongly build on current learning, build bigger patterns of meaning and understanding and enable the student <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">to see the future of their learning.

<span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 180%; text-align: left;">What students need to learn about promoting further learning Students have to develop their own capability to manage the environment to best support their learning, to seek and use feedback to close the gap between the current state of learning and the desired goal. we want students to:
 * seek feedback from a range of sources: teachers, parents, peers;
 * consciously manage and guide feedback so that it is linked directly to the learning intentions and has all the other qualities of effective feedback: timely, specific, affirming of learning that has occurred;
 * politely critique or reject feedback that does not have the appropriate characteristics that will help them learn;
 * act on the feedback in order to learn: manage the environment so that they have the time to learn from the feedback. (Clarity in the classroom pg 132).