USING TIMELY AND
SPECIFIC FEEDBACK
SUSANN PHAIR
SPECIFIC CONTEXT OF MY
CASESTUDY
• Tatachilla Lutheran College, (TLC) established in 1995 is an R-12 coeducational Christian school with over 1400 students and is divided into
three sub schools – primary, middle school and senior school. Its location,
in the wine region of McLaren Vale on the southern fringe of Adelaide
South Australia, provides a comprehensive and rigorous academic
curriculum, with a particular focus on the performing arts and
environmental education. Pastoral care, built on Christian foundations, is
integral to College life.
Hattie and Yates (2007) tell us that what the students really
need is feedback from their teacher or peers that provides
them with information as to:
1. How to achieve their goals
2. Where to move to next.
3. How can they close the learning gap between where they are now and
where they need to be?
The gap has to bridgeable and not too a huge chasm.
I found that many teachers don’t give specific feedback to the students when
they draft or mark their work to help them understand how to ‘close the
learning gap’.
The Action I undertook
• I conducted three interviews with a member of the English
Faculty conducted over Term 1 2107, as well as informal
conversations regarding the and how to improve and develop
feedback to Senior English Studies students
The Outcome of my Actions
• I created four interview questions regarding feedback after researching and
following what I have learned from the CEA Workshops:
• What is Feedback
• How is it currently provided?
• How can it be improved?
• How do you judge and track the outcome of the feedback?
• These questions were designed to elicit the teacher’s present understanding of
the role and value of feedback in enhancing students’ learning and how it could
be improved and monitored
Week/ Date Range
Unit
Due Dates
Language Study
24/7 – planning due
2 31/7 – 4/8
Language Study
31/7 – 1st paragraph due
3
7/8 – 11/8
Language Study
7/8 2nd paragraph due
10/8 3rd paragraph due
4
14/8 – 18/8
Language Study
14/8 4th paragraph due
16/8 5th paragraph due
1
24/7 – 28/7
Week/ Date Range
5 21/8 – 25/8
6 28/8 – 1/9
11
22
3
3
2/5 -–3/2
5/5
30/1
8/5– –
12/5
6/2
10/2
44
20/2
22/5– 24/2
– 26/5
Language Study
15/5 – 19/5
13/2 – 17/2
Language Study
5
5
66
27/2 – 3/3
29/5 – 2/6
6/3
10/3
5/6– –
9/6
Unit
Due Dates
Magazine/ Text
Charity
Ad Analysis
Advocacy
Study
Charity AdText
Analysis
Advocacy
Study
Advocacy Text Study
Charity Ad Analysis
30/1 – Magazine 1st draft due
th
6/2 – Magazine 2nd draft due 21/8 6 paragraph
th paragraph
9/2
23/8 7due
15/5– –1st1stParagraph
paragraphCharity
due Analysis
13/2 – Magazine Final due
17/5 – 2nd Paragraph
paragraph due
15/2
Charity Analysis due
19/5 – 33rdrd Paragraph
paragraph Charity
due
16/2
Analysis due
st full draft Charity Analysis due
20/2
24/5 – 1
full
draft due
Charity AdText
Analysis
+ Narrative
Advocacy
Study/
Advocacy Text
Creation
Charity Ad Analysis + Narrative
Advocacy Text Creation
Narrative +Text
Song
Study
Advocacy
Creation
due
due
28/8 1st full draft due
27/2 – 2nd full draft Charity Analysis due
3/3
Charity
Analysis due
1/6 – Final
second
draft due
st draft Narrative due
9/3
8/6 – 1
final
due for Advocacy Text Analysis
- 7/4
910 3/4
26/6
– 30/6
Song Study
Advocacy
Text Creation + Language Study
16/3
draft
Narrative due
12/6 – 2nd
1st text
draft
nd full draft due
20/3
15/6 – 1
2stndparagraph
text draft song analysis
4/9 2due
23/3 – Final Narrative due
nd paragraph song analysis due
24/3
19/6 –
–2
3rd text
draft
nd paragraph
29/3
22/6 – 3
2rd
draft for allsong
textsanalysis
11/9due
3rd full draft due
31/3 – Full draft song analysis due
6/4
– 2–ndFinal
draft song
29/6
for allanalysis
texts due
10
3/7 – 13/4
11 10/4
Song Study/Study
Year 12 Retreat
Language
10/4 – song analysis final due.
7 4/9 – 8/9
– 17/3
(public holidays prior to 15/3)
77 15/3
12/6
- 16/6
8 20/3 – 24/3
Language Study
8 11/9 – 15/9
8
9
19/6 – 23/6
27/3 – 31/3
Language Study
9 18/9 – 22/9
Language Study
10 25/9 – 29/9
Language Study
Narrative +Text
Song
Study
Advocacy
Creation
Narrative + Song Study
Advocacy Text Creation
Song Study
22/9 –final due