Guiding and Assessing Student Writing with Dr. Erika Bass

Guiding and Assessing Student Writing with Dr. Erika Bass 

What does effective feedback on writing look like? How do we prepare others to give feedback in a way that is useful for the writer and values our own time?This episode, Matthew Sroka chats with Erika Bass about her article "Using university–school partnerships to facilitate preservice teachers' reading and responding to student writing. We discuss challenges with providing feedback and how these challenges impact pre-service teachers. We then explore the power of authentic feedback opportunities through a local school partnership. 

Erika L. Bass is an Assistant Professor of English Education at the University of Northern Iowa. Her research focuses on writing instruction, rural education, and teacher preparation; often those areas converge. She is currently working on a book manuscript on critically placed writing with rural high school students, conducting rural-focused book studies with secondary English teachers in her state, and writing feedback partnership to help preservice teachers engage in providing writing feedback to high school students. She is also a member of the Whippoorwill Award Committee for rural Young Adult novels and serves as the academic advisor for the English Teaching program at UNI. In her free time, she enjoys taking her dogs for walks and playing slow-pitch softball. 

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Using university–school partnerships to facilitate preservice teachers' reading and responding to student writing.