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The learning is the center of our world, not the teaching.

David Ausubel once said, "If I had to reduce all of the educational psychology to just one principle, I would say this: 'The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach them accordingly.' (1968). Students may be given the same task but may have to go about solving it differently.

Grant Wiggins said, "The most common mistake is when educators fail to link the feedback to a specific agreed upon goal."

Wiggins provided the following essentials to effective feedback to students, teachers and school leaders. It needs to be:  Goal-Referenced Tangible and Transparent Actionable User-Friendly Timely Ongoing Consistent