Fast Feedback on Skills and Habits

Fast Feedback on Essential Habits

Use Feedback Forward to gather evidence of student growth as they practice the Essential Habits. 

The five OE Essential Habits include practicing curiosity, defining yourself, communicating openly, leveraging resources, and learning from setbacks. Give feedback on students’ progress and growth every time your students demonstrate a specific habit. Fast Feedback makes it easy to elicit and interpret evidence of progress consistently, so that you can give students regular feedback and understand their growth through data insights.

Five questions to answer as you plan for Fast Feedback:

1. Which Essential Habit should be a focus during this project, unit, or term?

As you are planning, consider which Essential Habit students will practice as part of a specific project, unit, or term. Collaborate with your department or larger team to focus on a specific habit as a subject-area or school wide focus. Choose at least one as a criterion for Fast Feedback. 

2. What does success look like over time or in different activities? What are specific indicators of growth? 

Identify specific indicators (or success criteria) that will help you identify and explain what development and progress in each essential habit looks like. Consider using the OE Essential Habits Rubric or developing a rubric or framework of your own.

3. How will I share success criteria with students?

Encourage a cooperative learning environment by sharing success criteria with the entire class. When appropriate, consider sharing this information with parents to facilitate support at home. Build self-assessment checkpoints into class routines and activities, enabling students to regularly evaluate and reflect on their progress.

4. When and how often will I give Fast Feedback to students on this essential habit?

Meaningful data insights in Feedback Forward require at least five sessions of Fast Feedback. This means that giving feedback needs to be a consistent part of your routine. Consider both your lesson plans and daily classroom routines, and identify the tasks or activities that allow students to practice this habit.

5. How will I act on data insights and help students move forward?

Make a plan to help students move forward using the feedback from Feedback Forward. Use the Insights to provide the foundation for conferences or weekly check-ins. Ask students to reflect, set goals, and create plans for moving forward. You can also screenshot a student’s data insights to create a customizable progress report to share with students and parents. Use Insights to plan for intervention, direct instruction of specific habits, or differentiated instruction.