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Form for effective feedback

To make things easier for you, we have provided a feedback form for you to use when giving your Learner the 4 Elements of Effective Feedback for each of their assignments. Click on the Word icon below to access the form:

Mentor Feedback Form

If you choose not to use the form, you may write your feedback for your Learner's completed assignments in 2-3 paragraphs, however, be sureto include in your response the 4 Elements of Effective Feedback:

• Pointing
• Summarizing
• Posing 1 question for your Learner to consider
• Offering 1 or 2 things for improvement

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This ends the excerpt from our Mentor Guidebook regarding giving feedback to Learners.

This Introductory Seminar continues with the next assignment for you to complete - "Assignment 2a: Meeting Your LearningCircle." This time, you will complete your assignment and send it to your colleagues in your Learning Circle by posting it to the WebBoard. You willalso be instructed to post it on The Learning Village section of the WebBoard in part 2b of the same assignment.

Assignment 2a: meeting your learning circle

What is a Learning Circle? (For those with Internet access)

While you are working on these courses, many other teachers from around the world are also taking this Certificate of TeachingMastery. The entire group of Learners is called "The Learning Village" - 21 different countries are represented in our Learning Village. You'll get toknow a few of the Learners in this village in a smaller working group called a "Learning Circle."

When we use the words "Learning Circle," we are speaking of a group of 10-12 people who will be learning together - sharingthoughts, responses to assignments, talking on the computer together at a special message/dialogue area called the "WebBoard."

As a way of getting to know each person in your Learning Circle, we ask that you complete the following assignment and post it on theWebBoard:

• Write your name and where you live (including the country).
• To give other members of your Learning Circle a sense of "place," please describe in one or two paragraphs what you see now as you lookoutside your window.

To do this assignment, click on the Word icon below. When it appears, press "Save" so that you can work on this assignment"off-line." (You can type right on the assignment form. Be sure to save your assignment on a disk or on your computer hard drive.)

Assignment 2a

(A description of WebBoard and instructions on how to post your assignment on WebBoard are contained on the next page. Pleasenote: For this assignmet, you are not sending your response to your Mentor. You are sharing this assignment with the other Learners inyour Learning Circle.)