LESSON # 19
Teaching Integrated Skills
Theme # 19.
The ways of giving feedback in writing
Length: One hour and twenty minutes
Number of Students: 12
Lesson Outline
1. Lead in
2. Activity 1. Assessing students’ writing
3. Activity 2. Giving feedback
4. Activity 3. More practice in giving feedback on writing
5. Activity 4. Case study
The aіm:
Guiding and explaining the writing process and offering practical methods for applying
it in a classroom to help students become proficient writers.
Objectives:
to raise awareness of the importance of assessment and assessment criteria
to discuss current practices of assessing students’ writing
to give feedback on samples of students’ writing
Activity Type:
pair-work discussions, teacher-oriented discussions, students’
analysis and feedback, group work, pair work, response-oriented
by eliciting, students’ in-class presentations
Materials:
whiteboard, marker, handouts, worksheets, paper
Activity type: Lead-in
Time: 15 min
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(10 min) Ask participants the following questions and elicit random answers:
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How often did you have to do writing assignments when you were a student?
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How were they marked? (e.g. 1-5, 0-100%, all mistakes corrected in red ink, comments, like
Well done or Poor etc)
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How did you feel when you got your marked writing back?
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How useful was the marked writing to you as a student?
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How often do you have to mark your students’ writing now?
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How useful do you think the assessment or the marking is to your students?
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Who taught you how to mark students’ writing?
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Do you think that teachers at your workplace assess students’ work in the same way as you?
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(5 min) Tell participants that in the previous sessions on teaching writing you dealt with both
teachers’ and students’ perspectives on writing. This session will
continue the same double
emphasis though it is going to be about assessment and giving feedback on students’ writing.