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. 5 Steps To Write a First Class Essay: PROFESSOR EXPLAINS

What you will be able to do

• 1.1 Analyse the characteristics of group environments that facilitate learning and development.
• 1.2 Evaluate strategies to manage group dynamics.
• 1.3 Describe ways to involve learners in the management of their own learning and development in groups.
• 1.4 Explain how to manage barriers to individual learning in groups.
• 2.1 Examine the impact of class dynamics on learning.
• 2.2 Explain how to facilitate collaboration and learning between group members.
• 2.3 Explain how to use motivational approaches to engage group learning.
• 2.4 Evaluate behaviour management solutions utilised in class.
• 3.1 Explain how to support learner’s rights in relation to equality, diversity and inclusion.
• 3.2 Describe how to minimise risks to the security, safety, health, and wellbeing of learners in groups.
• 3.3 Explain how to manage confidentiality in relation to group information exchange.
• 3.4 Explain how to maintain records in accordance with legislatory and organisational procedures.
• 4.1 Explain the tools that can be used to assess classroom dynamics.
• 4.2 Explain how to use peer observation, learner feedback and recordings.

Activity

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

Study materials

Videos

• 5 Steps To Write a First Class Essay: PROFESSOR EXPLAINS · YouTube · Professor Mark Egan · 8 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