• Leadership / First Year of Teaching / Best Practice

    Leadership / First Year of Teaching / Best Practice Receiving feedback Please do not ask, “how am I doing?”, if you do not want to know the truth!  I know this question has been posed to me many times, and the wait time before I answered seemed like an eternity.  I wasn’t prepared to tell…

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  • Leadership / First Year of Teaching / Best Practice

    Leadership /First year of Teaching / Best Practice Giving Feedback Grant Wiggins describes feedback as more than just hearing comments made after the fact, namely: advice, praise, and evaluation.  He asserts that feedback is the information we receive about how we are doing to reach a goal. (Wiggins, 2012 )  Usable feedback followed by advice…

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  • Leadership /First Year of Teaching/Best Practice

    Leadership / First Year of Teaching / Best Practice The big “mo”.  Momentum The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science defines psychological momentum as “the positive or negative change in cognition, affect, physiology, and behavior caused by an event or series of events that affects the perceptions of the competitors or perhaps, the quality of performance…

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