Methods of Supervisor Feedback: What Works, Matters, and is Sustainable for Pre-service Teachers

Abstract

Pre-service teachers entering their student teaching experience are required to be given regular feedback from their supervisor. This feedback, depending on the student teaching experience can be given in a very streamlined way or given sporadically. This study looks at how one supervisor gave feedback to a group of 12 pre-service teachers, how that feedback was received, and what type of feedback was reflected upon as being the most useful.  Implications for this study include a call for using more hands on and face to face feedback methods.