# Teachers need real feedback

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED Talks Education
- Speaker: Bill Gates
- Year: 2013
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_teachers_need_real_feedback)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Until recently, many teachers only got one word of feedback a year: "satisfactory." And with no feedback, no coaching, there's just no way to improve. Bill Gates suggests that even great teachers can get better with smart feedback -- and lays out a program from his foundation to bring it to every classroom.

## Lectures

1. [Teachers need real feedback](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/bill_gates_teachers_need_real_feedback/cfef2cd0f542), 11 min (TED's player)