Researchers and educators agree that
feedback about classroom practice must be specific and job - embedded in order to be valuable.
Not exact matches
The conference also gave the teacher an opportunity to share any information
about the
classroom with the principal, such as issues with individual students or specific areas of
practice about which the teacher wanted
feedback.
Think
about your own
classroom practice — how often do provide
feedback to students?
Engaging others in the process will increase the frequency and breadth of
feedback conversations, reduce the inefficiencies of relying on a single observer, and create opportunities for more frequent, formative conversations
about classroom practice.
Annual teacher surveys between 2010 and 2013 asked teachers
about the frequency of visiting another teacher's
classroom to watch him or her teach; having a colleague observe their
classroom; inviting someone in to help their class; going to a colleague to get advice
about an instructional challenge they faced; receiving useful suggestions for curriculum material from colleagues; receiving meaningful
feedback on their teaching
practice from colleagues; receiving meaningful
feedback on their teaching
practice from their principal; and receiving meaningful
feedback on their teaching
practice from another school leader (e.g., AP, instructional coach).
By adding scales to our
classroom practice, we can easily use the formative assessments to provide specific
feedback to students
about their progression toward the learning goal.
She has spent more than 20 years studying and writing
about classroom assessment
practices and has authored a number of ASCD publications, including How to Create and Use Rubrics for Formative Assessment and Grading, How to Give Effective
Feedback to Your Students, and How to Design Questions and Tasks to Assess Student Thinking.
Instead, it's a tool for teachers to self assess, and to have peer
feedback discussions
about learning in their
classrooms which lead to next steps in teachers»
practice.
Classroom feedback is provided in a timely manner to help students and inform educators
about classroom practices.
Through modeling, demonstration and lab
classrooms, and effective use of reflection and
feedback, the entire team will be on the same page
about what the selected
practices «look like» and how to use them.