Feedback loops are an incredibly vital part of teaching.
Great teachers are right now discovering just how much they rely on tight feedback loops to inform their teaching and connect with students.
It’s the ten questions you can answer in five minutes – and see in their eyes when they understand.
It’s the immediate diagnosis of a vocal technique problem, with a quick prescription.
It’s the class period when you see that your plan needs to be ignored, and you take your students out onto the grass and read them poetry.
It’s all the ways that a teacher can minutely and profoundly educate each of her kids, moment by moment.
Distance learning is fine. It’s fine. But as you recognize the need for more feedback loops, take the time to seek out tools to provide that feedback, and lessons that capitalize on feedback.