Early career teachers make up an increasingly large proportion of the public school teaching force. Often less effective and facing greater challenges than their more experienced counterparts, new teachers tend to leave the profession at high rates and, given that the modal length of teaching experience has now dropped to one year, finding ways to support the growth and development of new teachers has become of paramount importance. One critical way to provide this support is through effective feedback that improves instruction. In this 90-Day Cycle, the authors investigate the factors and processes that contribute to an effective feedback system, paying particular attention to how the system affects early career teachers and how such systems can coexist with extant and emerging teacher evaluation systems. Identified are a set of interconnected drivers at the district, school, and individual levels, that unpack the feedback process into a set of sub-processes that are shaped by individuals, systems, and the larger context in which those systems operate.
Authors
- Authorizing Institution
- Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- Location
- New York
- Peer Reviewed
- F
- Publication Type
- Reports - Evaluative
- Published in
- United States of America
- Sponsor
- ['Institute of Education Sciences (ED)', 'Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation']
Table of Contents
- Spring 2014 Sandra Park Sola Takahashi and Taylor White 1
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY BACKGROUND AND DESCRIPTION OF WORK 2
- RESULTS OF THE 90-DAY SCAN FACTORS NECESSARY TO CREATE AN EFFECTIVE FEEDBACK SYSTEM 3
- Driver Diagram Factors Necessary to Create an Effective Feedback System 3
- DISTRICT DRIVERS 4
- Driver Diagram 4
- SCHOOL DRIVERS 6
- CLASSROOM DRIVERS PRINCIPAL-COACH-TEACHER 8
- RESULTS OF THE 90-DAY SCAN COMPONENTS OF THE FEEDBACK PROCESS 11
- Process Map Components of the Feedback Process 11
- COACH NEW TEACHER 12
- PRINCIPAL NEW TEACHER 13
- PRINCIPAL COACH NEW TEACHER 14
- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FEEDBACK FOR IMPROVEMENT AND EVALUATION 15
- APPENDIX 16
- References 16
- List of Interviewees 17