The Power of Observations and Feedback: "It's a Group Thing!"
Observations and feedback... enough said right? I'm sure as a fellow educator you're half tempted to scroll by this post, cringing at the mere mentioning of it. Today I want us to reframe our thinking of observations and feedback based on what I learned from a recent webinar. We know as educators that providing our students with feedback on an essay will help them to see where they made an error, and more importantly, grow as learners. One of the sentences that stood to me in this recent webinar was "the same goes for adults!" Sure we are given feedback on our observation forms. We are used to this for sure, however, when is the last time you received feedback from a peer who is on your grade-level team. Or the the fourth grade teacher who provides feedback to a teacher on the first grade team. There are many possibilities when it comes to peer observations and feedback. The point is to not make teachers feel nervous that yet another person has come in to observe, ...