A Guide for Providing Feedback

Purposeful, evidence-based feedback is one of the most powerful tools for supporting pre-service teachers in their growth. This guide emphasizes offering targeted and reflective feedback that encourages critical thinking and ownership, rather than overwhelming interns with suggestions. It provides practical examples, prompts, and the FACTS framework (Formative, Actionable, Clear, Timely, Supportive) to help mentors frame observations in ways that lead to meaningful reflection and instructional improvement.

This resource is part of the Visibly Better project, an initiative designed to create a vision for the future around the use of video for professional learning.