Course Overview

This course teaches you the importance of providing students with clear and actionable feedback to help their growth and development in your classroom. You will learn about the importance of establishing strong criteria, collecting evidence, and finding ways to provide both positive and improved feedback. After developing an action plan to begin providing feedback to your students on a regular basis, you will delve further into ideas for implementation by analyzing and applying research and articles to the classroom and by designing a resource that supports the feedback you plan to implement. Through targeted activities, resources and templates, and reference guides and examples, you will build a strategic implementation plan to ensure that you have a successful plan of action.

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At a Glance

Approximately 45 hours
Access Time: 365 days
3 PDUs
Graduate Level Professional Development Credit
$380
No additional materials required

Program Highlights

Online education

100% Online

All coursework delivered fully online, so you can balance work, life, and study.

Standards

Graduate-Level PD Credits

Earn graduate-level professional development credits to support salary advancement and professional growth. Check with your school or district for approval before enrolling.

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Course Objectives

  • Evaluate the components of strong criteria, lesson evidence, and feedback
  • Analyze an effective feedback report that can be provided to students containing evidence, strategies, an action plan, and a reflection summary
  • Apply the rules for positive and improvement feedback to one or more students who need additional support
  • Plan for implementation by completing an action plan that provides a detailed student report of areas of strength and areas for improvement
  • Critique, analyze, and summarize specific articles, resources, and studies related to positive communication and methods for offering critiques for improvement feedback
  • Build and describe the use of a resource that supports a strategy you plan to use in your upcoming lesson
  • Plan and build a Classroom Implementation Plan for immediate classroom use by planning for the concepts you learned in this course

Course Topics

  • Course Topics
  • The evidence
  • Providing positive feedback
  • Providing improvement feedback
  • Implementing feedback in your classroom

Program Partner

This course is offered through University of Massachusetts Global’s School of Extended Education in partnership with Model Teaching.

What are Graduate-level Professional Development Credits?

Graduate-level professional development credits are not part of a degree program but instead are primarily used for professional advancement such as salary increment steps and recertification. Students should seek approval from appropriate district officials before enrolling in these courses.