Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Hinges in Action
About the Author
1. The Hinge Factor: Feedback
Managing Feedback
Research on Feedback
Feedback for Instruction, Not Only Assessment
Small Changes, Positive Gains
2. Positive Deviants
The Soup and the Ladle
Small Changes, Dramatic Results
The Flip
Making the Small Changes
3. The Tell-Tale Students
Tell-Tale Students
Feedback and Goal Setting
Feedback: Self
Feedback: Effort
Feedback From Peers and Feedback to the Teacher
Feedback Throughout the Class
Feedback in an Instant
Feedback Works to Engage
A Good Set of Goals
Invisible in Plain Sight
4. Learn to Engage
Was I That Teacher?
Simple Technique: Turn-and-Talk
Feedback: Peer Teaching
Feedback: The Brain That Changes Itself
Simple Technique: Take Notes
Feedback: Self, Peer, Teacher
Goals to Guide Notes
Note-Taking Methods
Evaluation Scale or Rubric
Feedback Is a Two-Way Street
Putting it Together
Many Strategies Work
5. Feedback From the Teacher
Feedback by Walking Around
Feedback to Standards
Doctors, Pilots, and English Teachers
A Good Set of Goals
Prepare to Give Feedback
Better Feedback, Better Performance
Feedback in the Twenty-First Century
Feedback and the Unmotivated Student
Changing Grading Habits
Feedback in Large Classes
What Motivates Us
6. Feedback Changed My Teaching
Except
The How, Not the What
Twenty-First Century Feedback
You Don′t Need Feedback Until You Need Feedback
Feedback for Myself
Everybody′s Talking at Me
Tell-Tale Students, a Hinge Factor, and Positive Deviants
References and Resources
Index

About the Author

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Jane E. Pollock, Learning Horizon, Inc., specializes in teaching and supervising learning. She provides long-term consulting services to schools worldwide that help them improve student learning and teaching practices. Dr. Pollock is the author of Improving Student Learning One Teacher at a Time (2007) and the coauthor of Dimensions of Learning Teacher and Training Manuals (1996), Assessment, Grading and Record Keeping (1999), Classroom Instruction That Works (2001), Improving Student Learning One Principal at a Time (2009) and Improving Student Learning by Minding the Gap (2011). She is an adjunct faculty member for various universities in the United States. A native of Caracas, Venezuela, Dr. Pollock has earned degrees at the University of Colorado and Duke University.

Reviews

"A game changer! Jane Pollock has done it again. Feedback has the potential to truly transform classroom instruction and positively impact student engagement, motivation and achievement. A must-have for all educators."
*Joanele Hoce, Intervention Support / Literacy Specialist*

“With Feedback, Pollock helps teachers, administrators, and coaches by prescribing strategies for creating a culture of feedback. The wonderful instructional tools and clear explanations in this book create a blueprint for developing independent thinkers, engaged students, and high achievers in every classroom."
*Jason Wenschlag, Principal*

“This book demonstrates the essential connection between establishing clear learning goals and feedback. The author uses accessible language and real-life examples to allow educators to visualize the application of the strategies in the classroom.”
*Michael Pakakis, Director, Victorian Space Science Education Centre*

“Feedback transforms the roles of both the classroom teacher and principal. The teacher becomes a learning coach by providing ongoing feedback to students. This affirms students or allows them to redirect their learning.”
*Chris Joch, Director of Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment*

“Feedback provides strategies that teachers can implement to improve student achievement and optimize student engagement. The author offers real-life teacher strategies that can be adapted into any classroom and will motivate students to become involved in learning instead of just being bystanders.”
*Linda Law, Director of Curriculum and Instruction K-12*

“Captivating and sensible, Feedback offers realistic information about how to motivate the unmotivated learner in your classroom and improve student achievement!"
*Dana L. Ziegler, Primary Teacher*

“Jane Pollock shows us that feedback is not the destination on our educational journey, but it is the vehicle that moves students toward clear learning goals and drives instructional planning for teachers.”
*Bill Hayes, Principal*

"Jane Pollock helps us understand how engagement in learning changes when feedback becomes a collaboration betwen student and teacher. The practical implementation of a variety of strategies is conveyed through the use of a ′teacher voice′, making it seem accessible and doable for all teachers."
*Diane Quirk, Instructional Technology Specialist*

"Jane Pollock illustrates the importance of empowering our students to manage their own learning through the use of instructive feedback."
*Michael Adams, Director*

"The strategies and ideas laid out by Jane Pollock help to move teaching and learning beyond the kind of test-prep dominated models of instruction found in too many schools, and toward approaches that will cause learners to understand and retain more information, and then to do better on tests, as well!"
*David T Conley, Professor*

"Chapters offer analysis of a no-cost technique that only involves a little adjustment in teaching strategy, offering an approach that works like an app and produces results. Classroom examples and success stories offer applied examples of feedback at work."
*Midwest Book Review, April 2012*