Recently, Rebekah and I spoke about how video can be used to
improve classroom feedback in some pretty exciting ways — sometimes right before a teacher's eyes — as part of an Education Talk Radio podcast with host Larry Jacobs.
Not exact matches
In this context, the responsibility of schools is to ensure high quality assessment of
classroom practice as part of accreditation and registration as well as developing a growing understanding of the use of
classroom observation and
feedback as key tools for
improving the quality of teaching and learning practice for individual teachers, teams and schools.
They argued that there is a growing professional and academic understanding of the use of
classroom observation and
feedback as key tools for
improving the quality of teaching and learning practice for individual teachers, teams and schools.
This is as yet a «potential superpower» of
classroom observations, since there's not a lot of evidence that providing such
feedback leads to
improved student outcomes.
In their seminal report Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through
Classroom Assessment, British researchers Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam showed that
improving the quality of
classroom feedback offers the greatest performance gains of any single instructional approach.
Visiting the
classroom often and providing
feedback also sends the teacher a message that you're interested in helping him or her
improve.
Please give me some
feedback on how I can
improve this resource and how you might use it in your
classroom.
The third role, as a mentor, will involve identifying the needs of novice teachers and providing them with actionable
feedback that helps them
improve their skills and the learning of students in their
classroom.
Students can't
improve or become managers of their own learning without constant, real - time assessment and
feedback, referred to in PBL instruction as assessment for learning, as opposed to assessment for school, district, or
classroom accountability.
Their
feedback allows us to prioritize what we take back to the
classroom and how we address challenges, and it allows us to develop new ideas to
improve teaching and learning.
Help teachers use
classroom - based formative and performance assessments to
improve their practice, providing teachers and students with real - time, actionable
feedback.
Existing international research suggests that
improving the quality of
feedback in the
classroom has the potential to
improve learning significantly.
In particular, rich data on SIG schools in one of the studies shows that schools
improved both by differentially retaining their most experienced teachers and by providing teachers with increased supports for instructional improvement such as opportunities to visit each other's
classrooms and to receive meaningful
feedback on their teaching practice from school leaders.
That is, in order for teachers to receive specific, meaningful
feedback to
improve the quality of
classroom instruction, leaders need to know what this powerful instruction looks like.
The 13 - teacher policy team, members of a teacher - led education policy organization called Educators 4 Excellence (E4E - LA), spent the past several months researching the most effective way to
improve the
feedback and support teachers receive to
improve their performance in the
classroom.
According to dozens of studies conducted over the last four decades, videotaping instruction and providing
feedback offers many benefits to
classroom professionals, such as
improving their ability to identify mistakes that went unnoticed during actual teaching, as well as enhancing «self - evaluative» skills and decision making.
Organizations also need formative information to help teachers
improve; they need indicators of a teacher's specific skills in
classroom management, for instance, or her ability to provide meaningful
feedback to students.
MPS is aligning
classroom instruction, evaluation and
feedback to the rigorous and more challenging Common Core State Standards to
improve teaching and learning.
Teachers use
feedback in the formative assessment process to
improve the focus of
classroom lessons and instructional strategies.
The
classroom observations provide more nuanced information about the specific ways in which instruction can be
improved (
classroom management, quality of
feedback to students, etc.), something not possible with value - added.
So, a value - added score should lead us to collect additional information (e.g., more
classroom observations, student surveys, portfolios) to identify truly low - performing teachers and to provide
feedback to help those teachers
improve.
For example, planners may decide that student learning in all subject areas could be
improved by having teachers offer more specific and more prescriptive
feedback to students on
classroom assessments.
Student perceptions of the
classroom environment: Actionable
feedback as a guide for
improving core instruction.
Six key tips are featured in this guide from neuroscientists, psychologists, and educators on how you can apply brain - based learning techniques in your
classroom, with explanations on how to create a safe environment for learning, encourage a growth mind - set, and emphasize
feedback to
improve student performance.
As a result of knowing and using the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model, administrators have
improved the quality of the
feedback they offer teachers: «Your
classroom is out of control because you have not developed
classroom rules.
To
improve student learning,
classroom formative assessments should provide
feedback, (identifying students» individual learning difficulties) and be followed up with correctives (specific remediation strategies).
That's why teachers who use
feedback to maximum effect must get to know their students well and establish a
classroom environment in which all students feel safe making mistakes and believe they can
improve with effort.
In your
classroom observations, what do you notice about teachers» deliberate use of
feedback to
improve learning?
To name a few shared objectives that a teacher leader system could address, we want to
improve the on - boarding of novice teachers in their first
classrooms, collect
feedback that informs backward - mapped changes to preservice preparation, share emerging knowledge from academia, and collaboratively build a research agenda that is relevant locally and informed by broader perspectives.
In many
classrooms, teachers introduce or review content but spend little time specifically naming the thinking process, describing what the process entails, or providing students with
feedback as to how to
improve.
Instructional Leadership and Management Oversee Lead Teachers and Content Leads to implement a standardized, schoolwide framework, approach, and system for MWA instruction, formal
feedback, and instructional competency framework Continuously
improve, refine, and ensure fidelity to the formal
feedback and evaluation process Serve as the lead, along with the Division Directors, to develop, lead, and deliver site - based professional development to the MWA faculty Develop and monitor individualized professional development plans for all faculty — including informal
classroom observations, scheduled
classroom observations, teacher meetings, and formal observations Analyze and report out instructional data and progress toward instructional goals to leadership stakeholders (CEO, Division Directors, Board)
In addition, researchers found (although we have known this prior) that «
classroom observations have the potential of providing formative
feedback to teachers that [theoretically] helps them
improve their practice [more than VAMs]... [because]
feedback from [VAMs]... is often too delayed and vague to produce improvement in teaching.»
During 1:1 Coaching Cycles, your school may set up a schedule for our consultant to work with selected
classroom teachers during math lessons to provide individualized
feedback and coaching to establish exemplary math
classroom instruction and
improve student outcomes.
The iHub program creates a short rapid -
feedback cycle loop for edtech companies to measure product efficacy and generates
feedback directly from
classroom teachers to
improve the product while it's being tested.
It has also been
classroom tested at around 50 sites here in Georgia that we used to get
feedback and
improve the curriculum.
Creating a strong culture of
feedback in our schools ensures that teachers feel supported and continue to discover new ways to
improve outcomes for students in their
classrooms.
Black and William discuss what makes for effective
feedback from teachers, such as opportunity for students to express their understanding,
classroom dialogue that focuses on exploring understanding, and
feedback which includes opportunities to
improve and guidance on how to
improve.
Feedback on all the vital aspects of
classroom practice and ways in which this can be
improved in different
classroom settings in your school.
But the work so far has focused primarily on developing more specific teaching standards and
improving classroom observations so teachers get more useful
feedback from trained and certified evaluators on how to
improve.
TORSH Talent, an easy to use, video - based and in - person observation,
feedback and data management platform, provides center directors with the ability to remotely coach educators to support and
improve classroom quality, developmentally appropriate practice, and accreditation efforts.
The SURN Principal Academy was designed to build principals» knowledge of high - yield instructional strategies (Hattie, 2009); to increase their expertise with tools in order to collect evidence of
classroom teaching and learning and provide immediate
feedback to teachers; and to facilitate collaborative observation conferences in order to engage teachers in reflection and professional learning and
improve classroom instruction.
The FAST program, a teacher support intervention, was developed by C - SAIL researchers, represents a bold effort to bring standards - based reform to the
classroom door, providing teachers with detailed
feedback about their instruction in order to
improve instructional alignment with standards and raise student achievement.
Student achievement is
improved by using high - probability instructional practices in the
classroom, including establishing clear learning targets for students based on state standards and giving students ongoing
feedback on their achievement so that performance
improves as mastery of learning is assessed over time.
A study by the Brookings Institution found that
classroom observations in particular have the potential to provide formative
feedback in real time to teachers that helps them
improve their practice, whereas
feedback from state achievement tests is often too delayed and vague to produce improvement in teaching.76
Meanwhile, the mentor teacher provides
feedback, support, and strategies to
improve the resident teacher's practice.46 By the end of the year, resident teachers should have significant instructional and management responsibility in the
classroom.
First, the state will develop principal professional learning opportunities focused on implementing teacher evaluations with an emphasis on providing high - quality
feedback that
improves classroom instruction, as well as developing, implementing, and sustaining distributed leadership models.
Principal mentors are provided a toolkit of mentoring resources and work with mentees to create a customized mentoring plan that focuses on developing the skills and dispositions in four critical areas of school - level leadership: interpersonal and facilitation skills, teacher observation and
feedback, effective school - level practices and
classroom - level practices, and using data to
improve instruction.
As a coach, part of my role is to visit
classrooms and offer teachers
feedback to help them continually
improve instruction.
They provide students with appropriate, immediate
feedback and teachers with realtime, actionable data to
improve classroom management and productivity.
By pairing continuous
feedback with data - based professional development plans, Comal ISD
improves teacher effectiveness and
classroom instruction for their students.