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Observation Models - Explores instructional rounds, “look-fors” variations, and the Classroom Walkthrough Models Matrix.
Creating a Common Teaching Vocabulary - Explores learning frameworks and indicators of exemplary practice.
Popular Feedback Models - Suggests the Tuning Protocol and other peer review and coaching models.
Using Language That Motivates - Explores when to switch from 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person while giving feedback.
Commentary Modes - Explores warm, cool, and hard commentary.
How Teachers Can Assume Agency in the Feedback/Evaluation Process - Explores how to solicit feedback when the school culture does not support it or the coach is inexperienced.
Models for Using Video in the Feedback Process - Suggests “What? So What? Now What?”, the “Feedback Carousel”, and “The Best Foot Forward Project”.
Why Tough Students are Our Greatest Teachers
In my first year of teaching, Derek was a student in my 11th-grade English class and seemed determined to undermine me. When he wasn’t sleeping,
