GET Feedback: Giving, Exhibiting, and Teaching Feedback in Special Education Teacher Preparation

“A powerful and rich resource of great ideas that will move the debates about feedback into the most worthwhile areas."
—John Hattie, PhD, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Perfect for special education teacher preparation faculty, coordinators, and administrators, GET Feedbackprovides examples, activities, and support for integrating and aligning feedback instruction, demonstrating the importance of putting the adult learner, as the feedback recipient, at the center of every feedback opportunity. Written in an approachable, easy-to-read format, this text is the first book to specifically examine feedback for adult learners. 

Drs. Martha D. Elford, Heather Haynes Smith, and Susanne James use the G.E.T. Model (give, exhibit, teach) to provide structure for feedback through four domains: specificity, immediacy, purposefulness, and constructiveness.

GET Feedback combines Adult Learning Theory with education research to provide a comprehensive, integrated framework to teach feedback in special education teacher preparation. This text will improve how special education teacher educators “GET” feedback across courses and programs.  
 

Contents

Acknowledgments    
About the Authors    
Contributing Authors    
Preface    
Foreword by Donald D. Deshler, PhD    
Foreword by John Hattie, PhD    

Section I     The G.E.T. Model    

Chapter 1    Introduction and Conceptual Framework    

Chapter 2    Book and Chapter Organization    

Section II     Giving Feedback    

Chapter 3      Audiences/Recipients of Feedback    
        Personal Reflection contributed by Carlos A. Flores Jr., EdD
Authentic Example contributed by Kyena E. Cornelius, EdD

Chapter 4    Immediate Versus Delayed Feedback    
        Authentic Example contributed by Kristin Joannou Lyon, PhD and Virginia L. Walker, PhD, BCBA-D

Chapter 5    How We Give Feedback    
    Authentic Example contributed by Martha D. Elford, PhD

Section III     Exhibiting Feedback    

Chapter 6    Exhibiting Feedback and the Four Domains of the G.E.T. Model    
    Authentic Example contributed by Susanne James, PhD

Chapter 7    Exhibiting Feedback: Reflecting and Planning    
    Authentic Example contributed by Martha D. Elford, PhD

Section IV     Teaching Feedback    

Chapter 8    Rationale for Teaching Feedback    
        Practical Application contributed by Wendy H. Weber, PhD

Chapter 9    Teaching Feedback in Instruction    
        Authentic Example contributed by Katie Martin Miller, PhD

Chapter 10    Teaching Feedback in Assessment    
    Authentic Example contributed by Ruby L. Owiny, PhD and Kyena E. Cornelius, EdD

Chapter 11    Teaching Feedback to Support Students’ Behavioral Needs     
        Reesha Adamson, PhD; Jessica Nelson, EdD, BCBA; and Felicity Post, EdD
Authentic Example contributed by Amy Gaumer Erickson, PhD

Chapter 12    Teaching Feedback in Collaboration    
        Authentic Example contributed by Anni K. Reinking, EdD

Section V    Resources    

Chapter 13    Comprehensive Review of the Literature on Feedback in Special Education Teacher Preparation    

Chapter 14    Templates and Additional Opportunities to Apply the G.E.T. Model    
        Authentic Examples contributed by Heather Haynes Smith, PhD; Jennifer Porterfield, PhD and Cathy Newman Thomas, PhD; Dennis Cavitt, EdD; Randa G. Keeley, PhD; Lisa A. Finnegan, PhD; and Anni K. Reinking, EdD

Glossary    
Financial Disclosures    
Index        

Reviews

“This is a powerful and rich resource of great ideas that will move the debates about feedback into the most worthwhile areas."
—John Hattie, PhD, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia“I am convinced that practitioners will find [GET Feedback] to be an extremely valuable resource as they prepare teachers for the challenging world of education they are entering."
—Donald D. Deshler, PhD, Williamson Family Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Special Education, Founder and Former Director, Center for Research on Learning, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

 

About the Editors

Martha D. Elford, PhD, is a Lecturer and Program Associate in the Department of Special Education at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. Dr. Elford is the Program Designer for the online High Incidence Disabilities Teacher Education Practicum program. She has experience as a classroom teacher, a reading specialist, and an instructional coach. Dr. Elford earned her doctorate degree in Special Education at the University of Kansas as a doctoral fellow with L-TEC, Leadership in Teacher Education Core. As a post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Elford supervised the following two research projects: (a) Poses Family Foundation grant studying instructional coaching, and (b) TeachLivE, the use of simulation in teacher-preparation programs. She also has served as Educational Consultant to school districts on co-teaching, instructional coaching, and strategic instruction. Dr. Elford’s research interests include the impact of feedback and coaching for pre- and in-service teachers on professional growth, using virtual coaching for teacher preparation and professional development. As a Fulbright Award recipient, Dr. Elford spent 3 months in Finland studying Finnish education and collaborating with faculty at the School of Education at both the University of Jyväskylä and the Niilo Mäki Institute in Jyväskylä, Finland. You can follow her at Vector Virtual Coaching: https://www.vectorcoaching.org/. 

Heather Haynes Smith, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on high incidence disabilities and reading instruction. Dr. Smith’s research, teaching, and service support inclusion, research-based reading instruction, Response to Intervention, Multi-Tiered System of Supports, Social and Emotional Learning, service-learning, and integrated academic and behavioral supports. Prior to completing her doctorate at the University of Kansas, Dr. Smith worked in Texas as an elementary teacher, instructional coach (reading), state-level Reading Technical Assistance Specialist, project coordinator for the Higher Education Collaborative at the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts, and a consultant for the Meadows Center for Prevention of Educational Risk. The United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County honored her as a nominee for the Inaugural Higher Education Innovation Award in 2019. Locally, Dr. Smith serves on the United Way Successful Student Impact Council, SA Reads Board, Winston School Medical and Scientific Advisory Council, and Mahncke Park Community Garden Board. Dr. Smith is a Certified Principal, and an elementary, ESL, and special education teacher and welcomes the opportunity to collaborate on implementing reading-focused multi-tiered systems of support and instruction with schools and districts. You can follow her on Twitter @DrHaynesSmith.

Susanne James, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). Dr. James is also the Project Director for the SIUE Virtual Professional Practice Lab (http://www.siue.edu/virtual-practice-lab/). In addition to her work with the SIUE Virtual Professional Practice Lab, she teaches courses in educational research, effective instructional strategies, differentiated instruction, and accommodations of core curriculum. Dr. James serves as the Program Director for the Department of Teaching and Learning Master of Arts in Teaching graduate program for those seeking an alternative route to teacher licensure in Special Education at the graduate level. Prior to completing her doctorate at the University of Kansas, Dr. James was a classroom teacher of students with special needs for 13 years within instructional and inclusion settings in Kansas and Missouri. She also has been an instructional coach and educational consultant to school districts for co-teaching, differentiated instruction, strategic instruction, and effective practices. Dr. James’ research, teaching, and service supports virtual learning, co-teaching, teacher preparation, and strategic instruction. You can follow her on the SIUE Virtual Professional Practice Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/SIUEVPP.