Delivering Performance Feedback to Teachers Using Technology-Based Observation and Coaching Tools

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-29-2019

Publication Title

Intervention in School and Clinic

First page number:

1

Last page number:

10

Abstract

Effective professional development (PD) for teachers should be directly and intricately linked to their teaching practice. One way to link PD to practice is for administrators or coaches to provide performance feedback based on classroom observations, accompanied by reflection and coaching. This type of PD can be time-consuming and difficult to manage in practice, but technology offers ways to facilitate performance feedback. This article highlights a multimedia observation tool capable of documenting teachers’ instructional moves in real time with the intent of providing a teacher with unbiased, descriptive data used to fuel coaching conversations. Additional multimedia options are provided for observing instruction and providing critical performance feedback with the intent of improving student learning outcomes.

Keywords

Instruction; Personnel preparation; Professional development; Education; Training, preparation; Teacher; Technology

Disciplines

Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research | Teacher Education and Professional Development

Language

English

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