Coaching Your Classroom: How to Deliver Actionable Feedback to Students (Coaching Students in the Classroom Through Effective Feedback and Communication)

Maximize student self-efficacy and growth by providing high-quality feedback students can act on. In Coaching Your Classroom, authors Garnet Hillman and Mandy Stalets share a fresh perspective on effective classroom feedback for all grade levels and content areas. Explore the parallels between teaching students and coaching athletes, and then learn how you can coach every student to success every day.

Use this book to implement effective classroom communication and student feedback:

• Analyze the impact of learning-centered classroom language and formative assessment on student learning.
• Understand the importance of effective communication in the classroom, as well as how giving feedback works and what a student-centered culture looks like.
• Embrace the qualities of actionable classroom feedback and examine the effect on student engagement and intrinsic motivation.
• Learn how to deliver individualized next steps and support students through the feedback loop and the gradual release of responsibility.
• Read real-world accounts and examples from teachers who have successfully coached their classrooms with effective classroom communication.

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Adopt a Language of Learning
Chapter 2: Coach Every Student
Chapter 3: Craft High-Quality Feedback
Chapter 4: Utilize Feedback Methods
Chapter 5: Ensure Productive Response
Chapter 6: Employ Self- and Peer Assessment
Epilogue
References and Resources

Garnet Hillman is an educator, author, presenter, and learner. She has served as an instructional coach at Caruso Middle School and as a Spanish teacher at Lockport Township High School, both in Illinois. She consults around the United States on the topics of assessment, grading, and student motivation. A passionate educator, Garnet values student learning above all else.

Through her work, Garnet emphasizes healthy grading and sound assessment practices. She has worked with a variety of school districts that desire to improve instruction, provide relevant and respectful assessment, cultivate grading practices that support learning, and increase student motivation. She provides rationale for a paradigm shift in grading methods and a practical, step-by-step process to implement the change.

Garnet holds a master's degree in educational leadership from Aurora University, as well as a bachelor's degree in Spanish from Ohio University. She has also completed graduate coursework in instructional technology.

To learn more about Garnet's work, follow @garnet_hillman on Twitter.

Mandy Stalets works with a wide variety of teachers, undergraduate students, and school districts to improve assessment and grading practices to maximize communication and student success. She provides rationale for the need for change in our current grading practices, as well as practical steps for implementation. Mandy is a teacher and learner who is passionate about sound assessment and grading practices, as well as standards-based learning. She is also currently a high school mathematics teacher at Illinois State University's laboratory schools. She is the co-moderator of Solution Tree's assessment Twitter chat, #AtAssess, and author of the book Standards-Based Learning In Action: Moving from Theory to Practice.

Mandy received her undergraduate degree in secondary mathematics education and graduate degree in teaching and learning from Illinois State University. She received her National Board Certification in early adolescence mathematics in 2017.

To learn more about Mandy's work, follow @MandyStalets on Twitter.