* Develop written guidelines that describe how teachers should respond to student work
Holistically, discussing the general quality, then areas of excellence and areas of weakness in an end comment. Moderate internal comments and mark-up.
Sound positive, but grade realistically.
* Develop a rubric that would account for your goals of effective teachers response
* Speculate about how can we redesign our classes (or writing program) to better facilitate feedback of student work?
* Outline the design of a research study to determine the effectiveness of teacher feedback