Marzano 7 Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback Sheila

Marzano 7 Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback Sheila Charbonier and Josephine Canizales

Setting Objectives ● Provide students with a direction, creating an environment for learning ● narrow what students should focus on o Objectives should not be too specific and should be adaptable to students’ individual objective o Sets a commitment for both teachers and students to follow

Objectives ● Set a core goal unit, and then encourage students to personalize that goal by identifying areas of interests to them. Get students thinking about their interests and actively involve in the goal-setting process. ● → provides students with a direction for their learning ● Teacher should create specific but flexible goals, allowing some student choice. ● Students should ask questions like “I want to know” and “I want to know more about. . . ”

How it should look in a classroom. . ● Articulating and displaying learning goals. ● KWL o already know, want to know, and ultimately learned. ● Contract learning goals o learning contracts help teachers and students share the responsibility for achieving desired outcomes. § http: //www. teach-nology. com/web_tools/contract/ *teacher will follow-up on the mastery of the objective at the end of the lesson

Providing Feedback ● Motivational strategy, corrective in nature ○ explain what is done correctly and incorrectly ● No such thing as too much feedback, but vary method of providing it ○ too much negative, or positive, feedback = loss of focus

Key Points ● Feedback must be… ○ corrective ○ level of knowledge specific o criterion timely *Teach, model, and encourage students to lead feedback sessions ● Remember: o have clear understanding of objective o tie back to the objective

How it should look in a classroom. . . ● given throughout lesson ● Teachers can use. . o Examples o Rubrics o Quizzes o One-on-One o student response systems

Objective ← → Feedback