A seminar on new perspectives on feedback practice

Last Saturday, I attended a very interesting and thought-provoking seminar which introduced ten new perspectives on teacher's feedback practice. The talk was given by a famous writing scholar who has aspired to revolutionize feedback practice in Hong Kong writing classrooms. The title of the talk features how to free writing teachers from being composition slaves.

The talk was well-received and also included a panel discussion during its second part. Five guest speakers, also in-service teachers in various secondary schools, shared their points of view how to adopt alternative approaches such as peer response and conferencing to give feedback to their students. Their sharing was authentic as well as stimulating. I am sure on that day, the audience may have taken home a lot from both the speaker and guest speakers.