Coaches are responsible for providing feedback that is accurate and evidence-informed, and should be careful about providing feedback that is outside their area of expertise. In this video, Ms. Maram Ahmed discusses how these competencies address the core knowledge and skills needed to provide teachers with strong feedback that is constructive, succinct, and focused.
BROWSE SECTIONS:
Learning how to communicate feedback effectively requires an understanding that feedback should be provided in timely, focused, and constructive ways. These qualities help coaches to deliver feedback in respectful and impactful ways.
Content-focused feedback incorporates language related to different learning domains (e.g., mathematics, language, literacy, social-emotional learning) OR specific areas within a learning domain (e.g., spatial reasoning, phonological awareness, fluency, segmentation,). Content-focused feedback helps to ground conversations in key learning objectives, content areas, and pedagogy.
Actionable feedback provides specific and concrete changes that help practitioners to improve their instruction or interactions. Coaches should consider realistic and feasible improvements that practitioners can make with or without coaching support. Actionable feedback can help to increase practitioners’ confidence and can empower practitioners to attempt new strategies or more complex practices.