- Project 1: Observation and Feedback: Submit by Saturday 11:59 p.m. (100 points)
After reading Chapter 3 in the Bambrick-Santoyo text carefully, look at items on the DVD that relate to this chapter and decide which you find useful for this project. Specifically, refer to:
- Handout 1B: Observation and Feedback, p. 1-15
- Handout 4A: Exemplar Feedback Script – Giving Effective Feedback – Anderson Script
- Handout 5A: Exemplar Feedback Script – Case Study 1
- Handout 6C: Self-Reflection Video Observation Form
- Handout 6D: Teacher/Video Observation Reflection Form
- Handout 3A: Giving Effective Feedback
- Handout 3B: Observation and Feedback Cheat Sheet
- Handout: Reteaching One Pager (Guided Discourse or Modeling)
NOTE: A teacher evaluation form is included in this module as an additional viewpoint of how teachers are evaluated. Click here to download.
Ask permission from your principal to observe two teachers for 15 minutes.
Select strategies, handouts, and processes mentioned in this chapter to use during the observation to gather information and to determine what should be addressed when giving feedback to these two teachers.
Conduct the observations and meet with each teacher one-on-one for 15 minutes each to discuss your observations. Give proper praise and useful feedback.
Discuss the experience with your school principal.
Write a reflection that includes the following:
- summary of Teacher 1 observation and feedback session
- summary of Teacher 2 observation and feedback session
- summary of discussion with school principal
- reflection on what was learned during the observations and feedback conversations with the teachers and the principal.
- Relate your thinking to information learned in this unit about the Observation and Feedback lever, as well as the five steps mentioned in the Schmoker text.