Thinking about Feedback
Formative Feedback helps us move our thinking and learning forward. I am noticing that you are all learning how to give specific ideas to each other to take your work to the next level. We really got to work on this when we gave specific feedback to improve our painting technique this afternoon. You grow and learn every day because you are paying attention to your thinking, listening to your thinking voice and beginning to understand yourselves as learners.
We talked at the end of today about my amazing discovery on Tuesday evening when I got home. I couldn't believe it ... sitting on the road in my alley was a Red Shinned Hawk. It wasn't in a tree or on a fence, it was sitting on the ground, I walked carefully over to it and it didn't move except to look at me. Very odd behavior for a hawk! It made me ask all kinds of questions, and make all kinds of inferences.
So, I asked you to make some inferences on how the hawk might have gotten there, and why it didn't move. You can use the Observe (What do you See?), Wonder (What questions do you have?), Infer (What guesses can you make, based on your background knowledge and the clues in the picture) thinking tool to talk to your parents about these photo I'm including below.
We talked at the end of today about my amazing discovery on Tuesday evening when I got home. I couldn't believe it ... sitting on the road in my alley was a Red Shinned Hawk. It wasn't in a tree or on a fence, it was sitting on the ground, I walked carefully over to it and it didn't move except to look at me. Very odd behavior for a hawk! It made me ask all kinds of questions, and make all kinds of inferences.
So, I asked you to make some inferences on how the hawk might have gotten there, and why it didn't move. You can use the Observe (What do you See?), Wonder (What questions do you have?), Infer (What guesses can you make, based on your background knowledge and the clues in the picture) thinking tool to talk to your parents about these photo I'm including below.
We see a hawk on the ground, it looks healthy, the feathers look a bit ruffled. We see some white spots. Black pupils and yellow iris. Yellow sharp claws. How did it get on the ground, on where did it come from? I wonder if it is angry or worried, or stunned? Why is it on the ground? I wonder why it is in front of a garage. I wonder why it doesn't fly away? Does it miss it's family? Maybe it's lost. Maybe it is because there was a terrible wind storm on Tuesday and it got stunned. Maybe it got hurt by a disgruntled wind storm. Maybe it's looking for food. Maybe it's acting this way because it's a baby or young hawk and doesn't know about human dangers. Maybe it was a huge turn and it could have been blown into a tree and got stunned or head damage.
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