Workshop 6 Checking Comprehension and profiding feedback

Gagné’s Nine Events of Instruction

1. Gain attention

1. Ask participants to discuss the following questions in pairs with the help of “Bicycle chain” activity :
2. –How do you give feedback to your SS?
3. –Do you use different feedback strategies for different needs? Why? Why not?

2. Inform learners of objectives

•  Read the objectives ( which is written on the boarding card)

               By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to :

 understand what to do after tasks or lessons to check comprehension and increase students’ learning

use appropriate teacher talk for feedback depending on different learning goals

correct students' errors with different feedback strategies and monitoring

3. Stimulate recall of prior learning

•  Stimulate participants ideas  by asking question:
• Have you ever given corrective feedback for your SS?
• Why giving feedback is good for learning?

4. Present the content

  -  Display the video about Whole class formative feedback  from TETE Course

-Display the video about Feedback strategies beyond error correction and anxiety free corrective feedback from TETE course.

5. Guide learning

 Teachers will be introduced the ways of giving feedback and read articles about Progress check and importance of Feedback from TETE materials.

Work in small groups. Give  each group different cases where a  teacher is  giving feedback to the students. Ask PP to read them and identify if this feedback is effective or not. They should suggest their solution if the feedback is not appropriate.

6. Elicit performance (practice)

 Then participants will choose one strategy of giving feedback for example Progress check, Thumps up /down, Scale 1-5  and they present with the help of one activity with their small group members. Then they will tell which strategy worked well and why.

7. Provide feedback

• Groups will give P-Q-P feedback to each other.

8. Assess performance

 Before they leave, give participants a piece of paper they will write their reflection on these  three questions:

• What was the most interesting thing I learned?
• What was the most important knowledge I gained?
• What question do I still have?

 Collect the Exit Tickets  to assess the participants understanding of workshop content.

9. Enhance retention and transfer

 Before participants leave the workshop, ask them to rate in Scale 1-5  the importance of giving feedback and checking comprehension . Then they have to choose one feedback strategy and say its advantages of using in the lessons.