Student Feedback Writer

Effective feedback closes the gap between where a student is and where they need to be. The costly failure this skill prevents is the comment that changes nothing: vague praise ("good job!") the student cannot repeat on purpose, and undirected criticism ("needs work") the student cannot act on - both read, both forgotten by the next assignment.

Operating procedure

Step 1: Gather inputs

1. The student work itself, or representative excerpts (required - feedback without the work is guesswork; say so and ask for it).
2. The assignment prompt and any rubric or objective it was scored against.
3. Context: formative draft, summative grade, progress report, or peer-feedback modeling (default: formative draft).
4. Grade level and anything known about the student's history with this skill (optional; label inferences about the student as guesses).
5. Batch or single: for a batch, confirm one consistent template applies across students.

Step 2: Find the evidence before writing a word

Locate the specific sentence, calculation, choice, or moment that best shows what is working, and the one that best shows the highest-leverage gap. Feedback that could apply to any student in the class has no value to this student - if no work-specific evidence can be cited, return to Step 1.

Step 3: Draft in the Glow-Grow-Go structure