E-learning | How to Use Effective Feedback Practices to Support Professional Development

Overview

Feedback can help teachers and leaders understand their practice from new angles, which can enhance professional growth and increase impact on student outcomes. Module 3c looks at why feedback is important and how you can embed effective feedback practices.

After completing this professional learning, you should be able to:
• Understand the role of feedback in effective teaching and learning
• Identify and compare multiple sources of feedback
• Understand the role of feedback and review in professional development
• Evaluate your feedback practices to strengthen your professional development

Let’s Begin

Feedback is information that is exchanged between a teacher and another person to help inform teaching and learning performance. Feedback is most useful when it is based on evidence and is relative to the learning goals of teachers and learners.

Feedback can be both informal and formal and can look different according to the teaching level, location and culture of the education setting.

Why is Feedback Important?

An accurate self-image is a good predictor of success at work. It increases your ability to assess the risks and challenges when taking on tasks and it means you are more likely to ask for help if you need it.

One of the most effective ways to learn about yourself and create an accurate self-image is to seek feedback. Feedback helps you to understand your teaching practice from the perspective of the people that are most affected by it.

Feedback is the basis for deep insights and reflections. These insights and reflections pave the way for changes in your teaching practice that have impact and are sustained.

For further information, please visit Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership website.