ABSTRACT
This chapter is dedicated to informal feedback to teachers, specifically through the use of instructional rounds and walkthroughs. Much has been said about instructional rounds and walkthroughs as a way for both supervisors and peers to visit classrooms to provide informal feedback to teachers to be used to improve practices. The objective with the rounds is to do informal classroom visits with a number of people and then to debrief about what is happening in the classrooms visited. The proposed result is twofold: teachers and leaders can benchmark, getting on the same page with one another about instructional practices; and they can discuss the kind of feedback that teachers need, based on what they saw, to improve student learning. The focus of the rounds can be to look for what the teacher is doing, what the students are doing, and what the learning task is at the time of the visit.
