Session 2

Article for discussion in Session 2: Peer? Expert?

Mangin, M., & Stoelinga, S. R. (2011). Peer? Expert? Teacher Leaders Struggle to Gain Trust While Establishing their Expertise

Article on HOW TO give and receive good feedback: The Feedback Fallacy by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, Harvard Business Review, March - April 2019

A selection of useful quotes from the article:

"Telling people what we think of their performance doesn’t help them thrive and excel, and telling people how we think they should improve actually hinders learning."

"Learning is less a function of adding something that isn’t there than it is of recognizing, reinforcing, and refining what already is."

"...getting attention to our strengths from others catalyzes learning, whereas attention to our weaknesses smothers it. "

"...learning happens when we see how we might do something better by adding some new nuance or expansion to our own understanding. Learning rests on our grasp of what we’re doing well, not on what we’re doing poorly, and certainly not on someone else’s sense of what we’re doing poorly. And second, that we learn most when someone else pays attention to what’s working within us and asks us to cultivate it intelligently. We’re often told that the key to learning is to get out of our comfort zones, but these findings contradict that particular chestnut: Take us very far out of our comfort zones, and our brains stop paying attention to anything other than surviving the experience. It’s clear that we learn most in our comfort zones, because that’s where our neural pathways are most concentrated. It’s where we’re most open to possibility, most creative, insightful, and productive. That’s where feedback must meet us—in our moments of flow."

The Virginia Wizard

For Discussion: How can adult educators better utilize the tools in the Virginia Wizard?

Access the Wizard at www.vawizard.org and register to learn more about what the tools can do for goal-setting and instructional planning. Go into Careers and take a look at the 6 tools (shown in the green-ish box in the flyer below).