Feedback can be one of the most powerful ways to improve goal-directed performance. The Great Teaching Toolkit has prioritised the development of more efficient, practical and powerful feedback tools like video. Use video to:

• Help teachers see their own classroom in a way that is broader, clearer and more accurate than their raw experience can provide.
• Focus attention on the areas that matter most to student learning, with a feedback rubric aligned to the Model for Great Teaching.
• Embed habits and motivate improvement through regular cycles of feedback.

A key aim of our video feedback tool is to help teachers to see their own classroom in a way that is broader, clearer, and more accurate than their raw experience can provide.

This gives teachers insights into their classroom that can be used to identify a development area.

Teachers can receive feedback in the four dimensions from the Model for Great Teaching. If feedback is received on a repeated basis, it allows teachers to see the progress they are making. Being able to see that you are improving some aspect of your practice is hugely motivating.

Teachers can upload a snippet of their practice to their Great Teaching Toolkit account, where it will remain private, until they choose to share it.

The video can be shared with an observer, coach or team, working together on a certain Dimension or Element from the Model for Great Teaching.

Trusted colleagues will then be able to add feedback to the video, using the Model for Great Teaching feedback rubric, or adding helpful comments.

Any feedback that is given is recorded and time stamped into the video, allowing teachers to jump straight to the feedback comments.

Video feedback can also be used to demonstrate good practice. Once pockets of expertise have been identified in a school, those teachers can share videos demonstrating how they enact that element of great teaching in the classroom.

Operationalising an element of great teaching into a well-specified and transparent measurement process helps to build a clearer shared understanding: a mental model of that aspect of great teaching.

Without that, it is conceivable for colleagues to have a conversation about an aspect of practice—say, “great questioning”—using the same words but actually meaning quite different things.

Develop adaptive expertise in your chosen element with one of the Great Teaching Toolkit courses.

All of the courses incorporate structured collaboration with colleagues to help teachers to get better, together!

Teachers can also draw upon 500+ resources, ranging from blogs, videos, podcasts and eBooks, mapped to the Dimensions and Elements of the Model for Great Teaching.

Every student deserves a great teacher. Great teaching is for everyone.

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