EPISODE 282

Here’s why some teachers ignore your feedback

Biggest Takeaways You Don't Want to Miss:
  • If your feedback to teachers has no call to action, you can’t be mad if they don’t implement it.
  • The purpose of feedback is to accurately reflect to a teacher their practice so that they can choose to improve it. Anything else isn’t feedback, it’s control.
  • Good feedback points people to the ONE thing that is at the root of their practice, invites them to do things differently, and shows them what will happen if they do it differently.
  • Feedback done right invites teachers into a better, more successful version of themselves.
  • Giving teachers too much feedback is just as bad as giving them no feedback at all.

There are few things in our jobs more frustrating than having a teacher completely ignore our feedback, especially when we know that things need to improve in their classrooms. The problem isn’t you, it’s the way we were trained. In fact, there are 3 things we were trained to do when giving teachers feedback that actually make our feedback EASY to ignore.

On today’s podcast, I’m breaking down those 3 things and show you how to fix them so that you can give teachers feedback that they will embrace and implement #LikeABuilder.

Check out these highlights:

  • How your evaluation instrument create noise that drowns out your feedback
  • Why using educatorese can hurt your feedback
  • The question you should not be asking during a feedback conversation
  • Ways your feedback can actually shut down true reflection

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