MONITORING LEARNING AND PROVIDING FEEDBACK

Monitoring Learning and Provide Feedback
'Expert teachers are more adept at monitoring student problems and assessing their level of understanding and progress, and they provide much more relevant, useful feedback.' Hattie
Expert teachers can anticipate and prevent disturbances from occurring whereas non-experts tend to correct already existing disturbances. Expert teachers, in their responsive zeal, can detect when students have reached their interest threshold, which could be argued is surprisingly low due to a constant bombardment of stimulus. In Rudolf Steiner schools teachers are required to bring about a harmonious unfolding of thinking feeling and willing, making sure that students are stimulated and inspired as well as 'doing'.Teaching in post-modern times calls upon the teacher to summon up their entire faculty as they navigate and filter relevant from irrelevant information, monitor, understand and interpret events throughout their lesson. As a consequence they seek to provide more and better feedback in light of this monitoring. As we now know the single most powerful moderator that enhances achievement is feedback. All students love to hear and understand more about themselves through their work. I believe the human condition is one in which we strive to understand; to know ourselves.



'Expert teachers are more adept at developing and testing hypotheses about learning difficulties or instructional strategies.' Hattie
Expert teachers develop and test hypotheses about learning based on the feedback they receive, evaluating possible strategies while seeking and adding further feedback information to ascertain the effectiveness of their teaching. Expert teachers were more meticulous in their efforts to adequately check and test out their hypotheses or strategies.