Crafting the Feedback Teachers Need and Deserve A Guide for Leaders [Hardcover]

Crafting the Feedback Teachers Need and Deserveilluminates an often overlooked aspect of educational leadership: providing quality written feedback. This resource offers context, purpose, and techniques on how to capture and write beneficial feedback. Proven in school districts, Van Soelens strategies will accelerate improvement in classroom practice and result in teachers who crave feedback and use it to supervise themselves. Full of examples and complete with an assessment tool to gauge current practice, this book shares insights into providing effective observation and feedback within any teacher evaluation system.

Contents

Chapter One

Shining the Light in the Dark

Chapter Two

Why We Should Measure Feedback Quality

Chapter Three

Building Your Descriptive Prowess

Chapter Four

Using Conditional Language to Ponder Changes

Chapter Five

Why Point of View is Significant

Chapter Six

Explicitly Owning and Raising Assumptions

Chapter Seven

The Trickiness of Co-Teaching Situations

Chapter Eight

Nurturing A Culture of Feedback

Appendix

In his book, Van Soelen outlines a practical approach for educational leaders to provide teachers with valuable feedback that leads to improved practice. The tools provided in this book will help any principal, assistant principal, or instructional leader learn to develop and utilize teacher feedback for its intended purpose--improved student learning!

--Jared Cotton, Division Superintendent, Henry County Public Schools, VA

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