(Orange County, CA) January 23, 2019 — Verso Learning, a leading provider of classroom feedback and collaboration tools, will be showing educators how they can supercharge student feedback in their classrooms, schools, and districts at this year’s upcoming FETC conference.
Designed to increase student engagement and collaboration, Verso enables students to receive feedback from peers and teachers, while providing educators visibility into authentic student voice. By enabling students to discuss classroom topics and share feedback anonymously, Verso encourages students to give other students feedback on their ideas and provides them access to new ideas to extend their thinking.
In its latest update, Verso has added a new feature designed to collect student-to-teacher feedback at the end of a lesson to enable formative assessment. Exit Tickets elicit student responses to pedagogically designed questions related to a lesson or activity and provide the teacher with immediate feedback on the extent to which their students have understood a learning intention, what strategies were most effective in the lesson, and even how the students felt about their learning. This allows teachers to more fully understand where their students are from a learning perspective, and then adjust their teaching accordingly.
An improved teacher dashboard provides visibility into the impact of their instructional practice at a class and student level, opening yet another avenue for personalized feedback that supports each student’s journey from surface to deep learning. Verso also enables teachers, coaches, and mentors to share insights and provide structured feedback for other teachers. Teachers build lessons using Verso’s pedagogically designed lesson builder, then use feedback from all of those sources to refine and improve their pedagogical approach and lesson designs.
“Professor John Hattie has identified feedback as having one of the greatest effects on student learning,” said Phil Stubbs, Verso’s director of education. “Verso is designed to deliver feedback not only from teacher to student but, critically, also from student to student and student to teacher. Exit Tickets, along with our improved impact dashboard and a focus on explicit learning intentions, create an environment where students and teachers are all constantly reflecting on their learning and focusing on improving.”
At FETC, Mr. Stubbs will be presenting two sessions about how this cycle of feedback gives students ownership over their own learning: