Providing feedback to students is one of the most interpersonal activities in any writing course (online or face-to- face), and therefore is one of the most impactful ways to develop your presence in ...

Imagine a scenario where you write an email containing honest feedback for a colleague, but you hesitate before hitting send.

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Last spring, CNN published an article on teachers using generative AI to grade student writing. On social media, a few of my colleagues at other institutions instantly complained—before reading the ...

This is a somewhat uncomfortable thing to admit, but for a good chunk of my teaching career, most of the feedback I gave students on their writing was not meaningful. How do I know this? Well, in many ...

Does thinking about spending hours grading student writing fill you with dread? It doesn’t have to! Writing is an essential activity for developing higher order thinking ability such as critical ...

A more intentional focus on writing instruction is reaping big rewards for a Tennessee district. In Sumner County, a district serving about 29,000 students, school leaders in 2019 were looking for a ...

Physics teacher Yung Tae Kim in Atlanta, Georgia, gave a Ted Talk about skateboarding and connected it to our learning environment with the concept of “real-time meaningful feedback.” This idea made ...

Nisha Chittal has managed teams and strategies at places like NBC News, MSNBC, Vox Media and Travel Channel. She was named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30” in Media in 2016 and participated in ONA’s Women’s ...

The Hechinger Report explores the potential of AI, like ChatGPT, to improve student writing while cautioning against ...

One of the most integral parts of a manager’s job is providing performance feedback and holding people accountable. So much so that it can’t be abdicated or delegated to someone else. And yet, ...

Feedback can play a powerful role in student learning. It can help students identify gaps in their knowledge or faulty thinking and help them to improve analytic and other skills for future ...