Definitions+of+sources+of+feedback

__**DEFINITIONS OF SOURCES OF FEEDBACK**__

On this page please add any information (including definitions, explanations and examples) regarding the relevant sources of feedback mentioned in our survey.

**__a. Professional Learning Walks (Internal__**) - Learning walks are a series of organised and highly structured collaborative inquiry snap shot visits by colleagues (walkers) to active classrooms in order to identify evidence of progress and areas for development for a school or group of teachers. They include short visits to designated classrooms by the ‘walkers’ who work together to collect evidence, learn about what is happening and ask questions..

__**b. Professional Learning Walks (External)**__ - Learning walks are a series of organised and highly structured collaborative inquiry snap shot visits by colleagues (walkers) to active classrooms in order to identify evidence of progress and areas for development for a school or group of teachers. They include short visits to designated classrooms by the ‘walkers’ who work together to collect evidence, learn about what is happening and ask questions..

__** c. Peer Coaching - **__ Coaching is a relationship between colleagues and involves the use of effective questioning, active listening, accurate summarising, and analysis of evidence that meet the needs of the teacher being coached.

__**d. 1:1 Coaching**__ - Coaching is a relationship between a coach and a learning partner and involves the use of effective questioning, active listening, accurate summarising, and analysis of evidence that meet the needs of the teacher being coached.

__** e. Watching Others Work - **__

__**f. Instructional Rounds -**__ **__g. Teacher/Peer Observations -__** **__h. Reflection Journal -__** __**i. Professional Partners/Critical friend****s**__ - Teachers working in pairs to enhance teaching practice.

__** j. P.R.P's - **__

__**k.Video analysis**__ - A structured conversation around 2-3 teacher selected excerpts of learning and teaching in the teacher’s classroom.

**__l. Surveys -__** __**m. Informal feedback** **(unstructured conversations) -**__ __** n. 2 + 2 - **__

__**o. Teams (i.e. P.L.T's)**__ -

__**p. Team Teaching**__ - Teachers teaching and reflecting together as they plan and teach the same cohort of students.

__**q. Classroom visi****ts**__ - Teachers visiting each others classrooms to observe elements of teaching practice.

__**r. Photo Chats**__ - Photo chats are conversations between teachers around photographs of student learning in the teachers’ classroom.

__**s. Mentoring**__ - This is a one-to-one relationship between a more experienced and a less experienced teacher. It is based upon encouragement, constructive comments, openness, mutual trust, respect and willingness on the part of both participants to learn and share. Peer observation may be an element of this strategy.

__**t.Team Coaching (Labsites)**__ - Labsites are classrooms used as professional learning settings for teachers to collaboratively examine teaching practice and its impact on student learning. By working with each other on common issues across their classrooms, teachers are able to study their practice, problem-solve within the context of their students’ needs/demands, engage in reflective practice, develop systems of shared knowledge, and make improvements in their daily practice so that student performance is of a higher quality.

__**u. Collaborative self-study**__ - Collaborative self-study involves educators coming together and reflecting on their own and others' practices for the purposes of improvement. Self study groups create an opportunity for collegial support and understanding, as well as an opportunity to understand the process of collegial support.

__**v. Lesson Study**__ - Despite its name, lesson study is not about studying a lesson in order to make it a perfect lesson. Rather, it is a professional development process in which teachers systematically examine their practice in order to become more effective instructors and teacher collaboration and collegiality are central to this model. The main activities of lesson study are identifying a lesson study research theme, conducting a small number of research lessons that explore this theme and reflecting on the process, which includes producing written reports

__**w. School visits -**__ Teachers visiting other schools to observe teaching and learning.

x. Other