Beat Burnout with Time-saving Best Practices for Feedback

For ELA teachers, the danger of burnout is all too real. Inundated with seemingly insurmountable piles of papers to read, respond to, and grade, many teachers often find themselves struggling to balance differentiated, individualized feedback with the one resource they are already overextended on--time.

Flash Feedback seeks to alleviate these struggles by taking teachers to the next level of strategic feedback by sharing:

• How to craft effective, efficient, and more memorable feedback
  
• Strategies for scaffolding students through the meta-cognitive work necessary for real revision
  
• A plan for how to create a culture of feedback, including lessons for how to train students in meaningful peer response
  
• Downloadable online tools for teacher and student use

Johnson, Matthew

Matthew Johnson is an English teacher from Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is also a husband and father, and over the last decade he has read, thought, and written about how teachers can balance teaching with all of the other important roles they play in their lives. His work has been published by Principal Leadership, Edutopia, ASCD, The National Writing Project, and the National Council of Teachers of English, and his weekly thoughts on how to be a better teacher of writing in less time can be found on his website www.matthewmjohnson.com. When not teaching, reading, or writing, he can often be found in the kitchen, his garden, or out on a run through the gently rolling hills of Southeast Michigan.