SCHOOL-BASED IMPLEMENTATION COACHING IN PRACTICE
Watch the video Observation & Feedback: Six Steps to Effective Feedback (Uncommon Schools, 2012) (3:34 min.)
- What are some strengths in how this coach
provides feedback? - How was positive feedback used?
- How did feedback prompt the person being coached
to deeper thinking? - What are some other strategies she might have
used?
EXEMPLARY IMPLEMENTATION
What Does Exemplary Implementation of Essential Function 2 Look Like?
Educators provide effective feedback by
- providing informal positive feedback, immediately after the session;
- using specific, descriptive, and actionable verbal feedback;
- using specific, descriptive and actionable written feedback;
- starting with positive feedback focusing on specific examples that indicate strengths of practice;
- reaffirming the positive, then mutually addressing growth elements with specific language and examples; and
- celebrating growth within the practices.
NEXT STEPS
Download the School-Based Implementation Coaching Practice Profile
What steps can you take right now to improve your use of feedback?
Reflect on your current knowledge and fluency with Essential Function 2 – Providing Effective Feedback, then determine possible next steps, including,
- selecting which of the criteria for Essential
Function 2 to practice, - selecting which of the 7 tools to practice,
- considering what structures need to change so
that feedback can be provided more timely, - outlining steps to providing difficult feedback,
and - considering how to celebrate growth in practice.
