At the start of the 2022-23 school year, conversations with school leadership teams revealed a clear and immediate need: improving the way department heads and administrators supported teachers through giving feedback. Just as much as feedback is an essential component of student learning, so too is it for teachers if they're going to improve.
SEV Academy designed a custom program and provided onsite coaching supervision to all of the admin teams across the Üsküdar SEV schools, from the Kindergarten up through the Middle School. Coupled with face-to-face trainings, the administrators trusted in the process and learned a lot along the way. Below is a summary of the program and some videos from some of our participants.
This is a recording of the third and final part of the Giving Effective Teacher Feedback training for administrators. The first two sessions were very learner-centered and active so they didn't make for a good asynchronous learning experience (you can see the content of those, however, in the Teacher Workshop video to the right). Additionally, most of the learning happens through instructional coaching supervision over the course of the year, since giving effective feedback is a skill that takes time and intentional practice to develop.
Once all of the trainings were complete, SEV Academy facilitated a session with the teachers at the ÜSEV Middle School to fill them in on the learning that their administrators had been engaging in during the first semester, exemplifying what it means to be part of a learning organization. This video shows the content of the first two administrator sessions and introduces instructional coaching, inviting teachers to engage in peer observation and feedback.