Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement

This week’s topics

Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement

1. Drafting against the criteria
2. Tutor and peer feedback
3. Improving the final submission
4. Feedback and peer review
5. Things To Do Before You Hand In Your Assignment
6. Academic writing workshop

What you will be able to do

• 1.1 Explain the aim of lesson planning.
• 1.2 Describe the characteristics of an effective lesson plan.
• 1.3 Describe how to design lesson plans that incorporate the goals and needs of learners.
• 2.1 Analyse learning styles and learning taxonomies to be included when planning a lesson.
• 2.2 Explain how lesson plans incorporate learning styles and taxonomies.
• 2.3 Explain how to ensure lesson plans are inclusive.
• 3.1 Explain how to prepare an effective lesson plan.
• 3.2 Analyse the need for flexibility and adaptability in the design of lesson plans.
• 3.3 Explain how lesson plan design affects the delivery of inclusive teaching and learning.
• 4.1 Design a lesson plan that meets the individual needs of learners.
• 4.2 Use lesson plans to monitor learners’ achievements and progress.
• 4.3 Explain how to enable learners and others to provide feedback to inform lesson planning.
• 5.1 Define: • assessment • evaluation.
• 5.2 Analyse the use of different methods of assessment and evaluation.
• 5.3 Explain the use of differentiated assessments to incorporate the individual needs of learners.
• 5.4 Explain how analysis of assessment and evaluation results can be used to inform lesson planning.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Draft the assignment, get feedback and improve it before submission.

Study materials

Videos

• Feedback and peer review · YouTube · Akademiskt skrivande/Academic Writing · 6 min · for registered students
• Things To Do Before You Hand In Your Assignment · YouTube · University of Staffordshire Student Life · 22 min · for registered students
• Academic writing workshop · YouTube · University of Staffordshire Student Life · 14 min · for registered students

Further resources

• Writing Guide, 3.5: Peer review and using feedback · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 92–94 · for registered students
• Supporting learners' agentic engagement with feedback: a systematic review · PDF · Reading, article · for registered students