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Using Quality Feedback to Guide Professional Learning
A Framework for Instructional Leaders
First Edition
- Shawn Clark - Saluda County Schools
- Abbey Duggins - Saluda County Schools
Pam Robbins
December 2015 | 256 pages | Corwin
Professional development just got more effective.
To really help teachers grow and have a more positive impact on their students, transform your feedback! With this guide to quality feedback, you’ll get your message across clearly and successfully, and promote professional growth as never before—with lasting results.
Whether you work with novices, struggling teachers, or good teachers with potential for greatness, this book will help you give feedback that’s both heard and understood. Features include
- Research-based coverage aligned with the Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning
- Structures for responding to teacher-created assessments, live observations, and videotaped lessons
- Advice that fits seamlessly into existing initiatives and support systems
- Tools, artifacts, vignettes, and examples of quality feedback in practice
The benefits of quality feedback are powerful, including high levels of accountability, bridges to new learning, and continuous improvement. Put it to work with your team and see the results for yourself.
“I have read a lot of books about how to improve classroom instruction. This book ranks with the best of them. I encourage anyone who works to improve the quality of our schools to study this valuable resource.”David G. Daniels
Principal
Susquehanna Valley Senior High School
Conklin, New York
“This book is a must have for any professional development team and/or instructional leader. Its ideas will positively impact student learning by allowing teachers of all abilities to learn, grow, and improve their instructional practice . . .”
Michelle Kelly
Curriculum and Instructional Coach
Great Falls, Montana
List of Figures
Foreword by Pam Robbins
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Why Use Quality Feedback to Guide Professional Learning?
Chapter 2: What Research Guides Our Beliefs About Professional Learning?
Chapter 3: How Can Quality Feedback Be Used to Guide Professional Learning?
Chapter 4: How Can Quality Feedback Support the Novice Teacher?
Chapter 5: How Can Quality Feedback Guide the Good Teacher to Greatness?
Chapter 6: How Can Quality Feedback Support the Struggling Teacher?
Chapter 7: How Can Instructional Leaders Provide Quality Feedback on Assessments?
Chapter 8: How Can Instructional Leaders Provide Quality Feedback by Observing?
Chapter 9: How Can Instructional Leaders Provide Quality Feedback Through the Use of Video?
Epilogue
Appendix A. Characteristics of Quality Feedback (Figure 1.2)
Appendix B. Quality of Feedback: Supporting Administrator Feedback to Teachers Throughout the Year
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Recommended Readings
References
Index
