Hundreds of companies want real -
time feedback from teachers and school administrators about their applications and programs.
Not exact matches
But more and more, I'm realizing if you're able to receive constructive
feedback from a boss, parent, spouse or
teacher and then implement what's needed to do it better the next
time, you care more about learning than your ego.
For the most part,
feedback from teachers cited concerns about rodents and bugs, too much going on [in the classroom], spills, and taking away
from instruction
time.
Find out
from her how the
teacher gets
feedback during class
time and what your daughter does to participate.
With
teachers, administrators, and entire systems in a state of transition, there is no better
time to capture and leverage critical
feedback from those on the ground.
That leaves barely enough
time for her to solicit
feedback from teachers, parents and other stakeholders, she said.
Their common feature is that, rather than listening passively, students spend class
time engaged in answering questions, solving problems, discussing solutions with their peers and reasoning about the material they are studying, all while getting regular
feedback from their
teacher.
To make independent reading worthy of class
time, it must include instruction and coaching
from the
teacher on text selection and reading strategies,
feedback to students on their reading, and text discussion or other post-reading response activities (for example, Kamil, 2008; Reutzel, Fawson, & Smith, 2008; see Miller & Moss, 2013 for extensive guidance on supporting independent reading).
Similarly,
teachers can leave audio
feedback for students who benefit
from hearing input multiple
times.
In Aldine, district officials are looking at ways to build
time for reteaching into the school year, based on
feedback from teachers.
A break
from hyperactive policymaking gives schools the
time and space to finish what we started — to actually implement the higher standards that most states adopted seven years ago; to get better at giving
teachers helpful
feedback about their instructional practices; to find curricula worth teaching; and to experiment with new approaches to personalization.
The digital learning tools flooding schools come with a tantalizing promise: real -
time feedback on what children know, combined with fingertip access to a dizzying array of tailored instructional materials, resulting in more customized instruction
from teachers and a more personalized learning experience for each student.
Edkimo provides
teachers with a
time - saving, hands - on way to receive
feedback from their students via an app.
«A
feedback app for the classroom helps
teachers collect real -
time feedback from their students.»
But I'm optimistic about the potential of unbundling the role of the
teacher and leveraging technology to create an online system for measuring and tracking student learning growth that has the rigor of human - graded assessment, the advantage of quick
feedback cycle
times, and the validity and reliability that come
from standardization.
But in schools, the biggest lag in providing students with
feedback stems
from the fact that
teachers can not teach and grade at the same
time.
A quarterly or semester schedule is recommended to principals not only as best practice in terms of providing
feedback to
teachers across the year, but also
from a
time management perspective.
That was helpful at the
time, and it is still helpful for many
teachers, but we are now looking at new data and
feedback to streamline the map so that
teachers and evaluators can get
from Point A to Point B faster.
Teachers are asked to practice what they've learned immediately, in real -
time, and can expect to receive immediate
feedback from their colleagues that is designed to identify their strengths and areas for growth.
Focusing on secondary level education, frequent
feedback from teachers on shorter homework tasks has a larger impact upon progress, open - ended projects require
time and have a lower effect on overall progress.
«We've marginalized the use of paper around here and
teachers are now able — with the documents they're uploading and sharing with us
from the privacy of their own homes or other collaboration
time — to get the
feedback they want so they can grow as educators.»
From my work with teachers, I found that these are some of the critical teaching strategies that support students to become assessment - capable learners: Provide time for student reflection on their learning Involve the students in developing success criteria & rubrics for their own assessment Let students assess their own work & measure this against teacher judgements Provide feedback & encourage students to set goals from this assessment Be explicit about what learning progressions look like & encourage students to use these to set their own learning goals Provide opportunities for students to achieve goals through attending teacher - led or peer - led clinics And celebrate goals when they are achie
From my work with
teachers, I found that these are some of the critical teaching strategies that support students to become assessment - capable learners: Provide
time for student reflection on their learning Involve the students in developing success criteria & rubrics for their own assessment Let students assess their own work & measure this against
teacher judgements Provide
feedback & encourage students to set goals
from this assessment Be explicit about what learning progressions look like & encourage students to use these to set their own learning goals Provide opportunities for students to achieve goals through attending teacher - led or peer - led clinics And celebrate goals when they are achie
from this assessment Be explicit about what learning progressions look like & encourage students to use these to set their own learning goals Provide opportunities for students to achieve goals through attending
teacher - led or peer - led clinics And celebrate goals when they are achieved!
A recent post
from Robert Kaplinsky, a mathematics
teacher specialist in Southern California, mentioned a
teacher who posted a sign outside of his classroom inviting anyone to observe him at any
time he was teaching, and offering three points on which he would like
feedback.
From teacher feedback, the importance of
time to work on collections with experts and their peers emerged as other important features (reported by a total of five
teachers).
While observing and filming
teachers there have been
times when we had to bite our tongues and make ourselves abstain
from jumping in and offering
feedback as the lesson was occurring.
Based on
feedback from a
teacher who commented, «Need more
time in between the first initial lesson study meeting and the teaching date, to make sure that technology will cooperate,» the leadership changed the schedule to provide an entire week for these adjustments to be made prior to the teaching rotations in classrooms.
The report describes three inter-related elements that these systems have in common: (a) Rigorous, comprehensive curricula and assessments aligned to high standards; (b) Content - focused, expert - led
teacher collaboration
time; and (c) Regular, growth - oriented
feedback for
teachers from content experts.
Partly because of the lack of
time to observe and work with one another, U.S.
teachers receive much less
feedback from peers, which research shows is the most useful for improving practice.
«The overall majority of how you evaluate a
teacher is classroom observation,
feedback from parents and students, and a component — albeit a minor component that we're putting forward — is how students do over
time and how we're accountable for how [they] do,» Deasy said.
In that
time, they received
feedback from 2,300
teachers from all across the City of Chicago, representing all grades and subjects.
Induction often includes being matched with a veteran mentor
teacher and can also include seminars, classroom assistance,
time to collaborate with other
teachers, coaching and
feedback from experienced
teachers, and reduced workloads.
TNReady testing was originally scheduled at two different
times during a school year, but in response to
feedback from teachers and administrators, it has been consolidated and shortened into a single state testing window between April 17 and May 5, which is one week shorter than scheduled last year.
Currently, companies can see the high - level
feedback teachers are making about their products, and soon they'll be able to see deeper insights
from teachers in real
time so that they can improve their products even more quickly.
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
The study looked at survey responses
from a nationally representative sample of 1,825
teachers to gain insight on how much
time teachers have to collaborate and the extent to which
teachers receive helpful
feedback through collaboration.
«Motivation is ground zero,» she quoted
from a classroom
teacher's
feedback about the recently New York
Times - reviewed interactive Shakespeare series that Sourcebooks launched earlier this year.
Through the iOS app
teachers will be able to give students
feedback in real -
time from their smartphones and tablets.