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Using Quality Feedback to Guide Professional Learning
By: Shawn Berry Clark, Abbey S. Duggins
Promote professional growth in novices, struggling teachers, and teachers with potential for greatness. Features structures for offering feedback, seamless integration into existing initiatives, and examples.
- Grade Level: PreK-12
- ISBN: 9781483377124
- Published By: Corwin
- Year: 2015
- Page Count: 256
- Publication date: October 16, 2015
Price: $39.95
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Description
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
Key features
- Equips instructional leaders with the requisite knowledge and skills to provide effective feedback to teachers that facilitates teacher (and, ultimately, student) improvement.
- Describes uses of transformational feedback with novice teachers, struggling teachers, and “good” teachers who can be guided toward greatness.
- Provides three especially promising opportunities to give feedback: responding to teacher-created assessments, using observations to promote professional learning, and providing feedback through the use of videos.
- Includes tools, artifacts, case vignettes, and examples of clear and descriptive feedback that facilitate transfer and provide snapshots of transformational feedback in practice.
- Aligned with the latest Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning.
Author(s)
Shawn Berry Clark
As an alumna of the University of South Carolina, Shawn Berry Clark’s academic degrees include: Bachelor's of Science in Psychology, Master's of Education in Early Childhood, Master's of Education in Education Administration, and PhD in Education Administration. Her career moves include working in the following areas: participant with the Youth Diversion Project for at-risk youth at USC, youth counselor at The Boys and Girls Club, teacher at USC Children's Center and Webber Elementary School, and administrator at Saluda Middle School for 11 years. Currently, Shawn serves as Director of Curriculum and Instruction for Saluda County Schools.
Shawn serves on the board of the South Carolina Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and the South Carolina Association of School Administrators. She has led professional learning sessions at the local, regional, state, and national levels on topics such as classroom observations and the use of video, formative assessment, common core state standards, and quality feedback. As a former two-time high school dropout, Shawn knows the meaning of not having a quality education and has devoted her life to making school the best possible experience for all students.
Shawn and her husband live in Johnston, South Carolina along with Zeus and Titan (their amazing canines). She is the mother of 2 incredible adults, Peyton Love and Dana Kippel - her two main reasons for proving to others that education is the key to having choices in life. Shawn can be reached at sclark@saludaschools.org or shawnbclark@gmail.com.
Abbey S. Duggins
Abbey Spoonmore Duggins has spent the last fourteen years as a middle school English teacher and literacy coach, a middle and high school instructional coach, and a high school assistant principal for instruction. She has master’s degrees in Language and Literacy and Educational Administration, as well as a PhD in Language and Literacy from the University of South Carolina.
A member of several professional organizations, Abbey is energized by learning, reading, and interacting with students and colleagues. She has recently served her state as president of the South Carolina Leaders of Literacy (SCLL) and is on the board of the South Carolina Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. She has led professional learning sessions at the local, regional, state, and national level on topics such as formative assessment, classroom discourse, literacy frameworks, and quality feedback. As a classroom teacher, establishing a strong culture of learning and sense of community was at the foundation of her teaching beliefs. This same philosophy is reflected in her writing and her work as an instructional leader.
Abbey and her husband reside in Batesburg, South Carolina, where they are raising their own little reader, Maxwell, and his sidekick, Noche (a black lab/German Shepherd mix). She can be reached at aduggins@saludaschools.org or abbeyduggins@hotmail.com.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Foreword by Pam Robbins
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Why Use Quality Feedback to Guide Professional Learning?
Our Journey Toward Quality Feedback
Administrator’s Turn
Coach’s Turn
Measurable Results: Impact Data
A Note About Culture
Defining Quality Feedback
Immediate Implementation of Quality Feedback
From Words to Action
Chapter 2: What Research Guides Our Beliefs About Professional Learning?
Beliefs About Professional Learning
Teachers as Professionals: Honoring Teacher Voice by Tailoring Professional Learning
Administrator’s Turn
Coach’s Turn
Learning as a Social Process
Quality Feedback as a Tool for Reflection
Providing Feedback in One-on-One Professional Learning Settings
Coach’s Turn
From Words to Action
Chapter 3: How Can Quality Feedback Be Used to Guide Professional Learning?
Research and Related Studies on Quality Feedback
Using Feedback to Grow Your Teachers Versus Weeding Them Out
Administrator’s Turn
Teacher’s Turn
Coach’s Turn
Additional Notes Regarding Our Experience With Providing Quality Feedback
From Words to Action
Chapter 4: How Can Quality Feedback Support the Novice Teacher?
Research and Rationale for Creating Strong Induction Programs
Sample Professional Learning Opportunities to Provide Feedback to Novice Teachers
Administrator’s Turn
Coach’s Turn
Teacher’s Turn
From Words to Action
Chapter 5: How Can Quality Feedback Guide the Good Teacher to Greatness?
Lessons from Good to Great
Sample Professional Learning Opportunities That Empower Teachers
Coach’s Turn
Pushing the Envelope and Achieving Consistent Excellence
Administrator’s Turn
Teacher’s Turn
From Words to Action
Chapter 6: How Can Quality Feedback Support the Struggling Teacher?
Sample Professional Learning Opportunities to Support Struggling Teachers
Administrator’s Turn
Teacher’s Turn
Coach’s Turn
From Words to Action
Chapter 7: How Can Instructional Leaders Provide Quality Feedback on Assessments?
Build an Assessment-Literate Culture
Teacher’s Turn
Sample Professional Learning Opportunities to Support Teachers
Teacher’s Turn
System of Assessment Validation
Administrator’s Turn
Coach’s Turn
From Words to Action
Chapter 8: How Can Instructional Leaders Provide Quality Feedback by Observing?
Making Observations a Priority
Administrator’s Turn
Observation Techniques
Sample Professional Learning Opportunities to Support Teachers
Coach’s Turn
Teacher’s Turn
From Words to Action
Chapter 9: How Can Instructional Leaders Provide Quality Feedback Through the Use of Video?
How It All Began: A Little Bit of Context
Rationale for Using Video
Sample Professional Learning Opportunities to Support Teachers
Teacher’s Turn
Administrator’s Turn
Coach’s Turn
Expanding the Use of Video
Teacher's Turn
From Words to Action
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
C1. Tool 2 QPA Sorting Kindergarten
C2. QPA Plan Sorting Kindergarten
C3. QPA Sorting Assessment Kindergarten
Appendix D
D1. Tool 2 Assessment Validation Newspaper Project English III
D2. Newspaper Project English III Assessment With Feedback
Appendix E
E1. Tool 2 Assessment Validation World Religions
E2. World Religions Assessment With Feedback
Recommended Readings
References
Index