Feedback, by its very definition, is focused on the past, which can't be changed. Feedforward looks ahead at future possibilities that still fall under our control. Feedback tends to reinforce personal stereotypes or negative self-fulfilling prophecies. Feedforward looks beyond what is in favor of what can be.
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Share "Feedforward," Not Feedback | Edutopia - 51 views
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With feedforward, those ideas come from the very person being asked to change, increasing the odds that change will occur.
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job-embedded PD
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Deployed by districts or contracted by individual schools, instructional coaches live alongside the faculty and provide on-the-job support to teams of teachers.
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Peer Observations and Teacher Rounds
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PLCs bring together teachers with shared interests and goals for frequent discussion about and analysis of teaching practices.
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Why Schools Must Move Beyond One-to-One Computing | November Learning - 139 views
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I’m concerned that most one-to-one implementation strategies are based on the new tool as the focus of the program. Unless we break out of this limited vision that one-to-one computing is about the device, we are doomed to waste our resources.
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Then, teachers are instructed to go! But go where?
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it is a simplistic and short- sighted phrase that suggests if every student had a device and if every teacher were trained to use these devices, then student learning would rise automatically.
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Adding a digital device to the classroom without a fundamental change in the culture of teaching and learning will not lead to significant improvement.
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The planning considerations now evolve from questions about technical capacity to a vision of limitless opportunities for learning.
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As soon as you shift from “one- to-one” to “one-to-world,” it changes the focus of staff development from technical training to understanding how to design assignments that are more empowering—and engage students in a learning community with 24-hour support
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Perhaps the weakest area of the typical one-to-one computing plan is the complete absence of leadership development for the administrative team
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Support the design of an ongoing and embedded staff development program that focuses on pedagogy as much as technology.
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How can we build capacity for all of our teachers to share best practices with colleagues in their school and around the world?
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How can we give students authentic work from around the world to prepare each of them to expand their personal boundaries of what they can accomplish?