Actionable Feedback to PK-12 Teachers

by Alyson L. Lavigne (Editor), Mary Lynne Derrington former superintendent; author; and educational leadership professor in the (Editor), Jeffrey Glanz (Editor)

Overview

Actionable Feedback to PK-12 Teachers provides practical applications for those who conduct teacher classroom observations and provide feedback for growth. Leaders will learn strategies to support content and program area teachers with effective feedback practices. The book supplements effective instructional practices and includes strategies for useful modifications of mandated uniform observation instruments. The collection of thirteen chapters in this edited text includes:

• Supervisory theories
• Developmental and differentiated feedback
• Applying human resource orientation to supervision
• Using classroom video for supervision
• Feedback for equitable change
• Feedback for culturally responsive instruction
• Teacher supervision in: STEM, literacy, early childhood education, gifted education, career and technical education, and virtual schools

After reading Actionable Feedback to PK-12 Teachers, readers will be equipped with foundational knowledge as well as specific feedback strategies for supervising programs and content areas. Readers will develop skills in providing effective feedback that promotes teacher growth leading to instructional strategies that increases student learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475866209
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/12/2023
Series:	Bridging Theory and Practice
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	210
File size:	876 KB

About the Author

Alyson L. Lavigne is an Associate Professor of Instructional Leadership at Utah State University. Using her training in educational psychology and classroom research, Lavigne conducts research on teacher retention, teachers’ beliefs, teacher supervision and evaluation, and culturally and linguistically minoritized students’ experiences.

Mary Lynne Derrington is an Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Department. She teaches courses in teacher supervision and advance leadership. Derrington conducts K-12 school leadership research with focus on teacher supervision and evaluation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Series Editor’s Introduction

Editors’ Introduction

Section 1. The Big Picture of Supervision & Feedback

Chapter 1. Promising Supervisory Theories and Strategies for Instructional Improvement

Chapter 2. Feedback: Theory, Research, and Process

Chapter 3. Developmental and Differentiated Feedback for Educators

Chapter 4. A Strategic Human Resource Orientation to Teacher Supervision

Chapter 5. The Use of Video Analysis in Supervision

Chapter 6. Culturally Responsive Instructional Supervision: (Re)Envisioning Feedback for Equitable Change

Chapter 7. Feedback to Improve Culturally Responsive Instruction

Section 2. Specific Applications of Feedback

Chapter 8. Building Leadership Content Knowledge to Supervise Teachers in STEM Disciplines

Chapter 9. Research-based Supervision and Feedback Practices in Literacy Instruction

Chapter 10. Leadership Content Knowledge for Early Childhood: Making Feedback Meaningful

Chapter 11. Supervision and Observation in the Gifted Education Classroom

Chapter 12. The Value and Necessity of Differentiation in Observation and Feedback for Career

and Technical Education Teachers

Chapter 13. Supervising in a Virtual School Context

Themes and Future Directions

About the Contributors

Index

Editorial Reviews

Effective, differentiated educator feedback is one of the most important tools a principal can provide in supporting a teacher to reach their full potential. Actionable Feedback to PK-12 Teachers provides excellent strategies and examples of how to encourage the best possible outcomes when providing feedback. I highly recommend this book as a support for you as you are refining and growing educators in your buildings.

Brandon Pratt

A new mindset about feedback to improve educators learning and professional growth. A broad brush and telescopic view, firmly based on the nuances of feedback research, and powerful messages and tools for practice. Feedback is powerful, and this book is so powerful to make it heard, understood, and actioned.

John Hattie

This comprehensive application of research to the practice of feedback will expand and enrich principals’ and teacher leaders’ feedback repertoire. The deep well of engaging concepts fuels educators’ thinking about feedback in new ways. Those who apply the lessons from this volume will cultivate pedagogical content knowledge among teachers that fosters effective teaching and learning for students and educators alike.

S. David Brazer

A new mindset about feedback to improve educators learning and professional growth. A broad brush and telescopic view, firmly based on the nuances of feedback research, and powerful messages and tools for practice. Feedback is powerful, and this book is so powerful to make it heard, understood, and actioned.

--John Hattie, PhD, emeritus laureate professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia; chair of the board of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership

Effective, differentiated educator feedback is one of the most important tools a principal can provide in supporting a teacher to reach their full potential. Actionable Feedback to PK-12 Teachers provides excellent strategies and examples of how to encourage the best possible outcomes when providing feedback. I highly recommend this book as a support for you as you are refining and growing educators in your buildings.

--Brandon Pratt, principal, Knoxville, TN

This comprehensive application of research to the practice of feedback will expand and enrich principals' and teacher leaders' feedback repertoire. The deep well of engaging concepts fuels educators' thinking about feedback in new ways. Those who apply the lessons from this volume will cultivate pedagogical content knowledge among teachers that fosters effective teaching and learning for students and educators alike.

--S. David Brazer, PhD, Brazer Education Consulting LLC

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