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In Step 5 of the Data Wise Improvement Process, we examine instruction.
In Step 5 of the Data Wise Improvement Process, we examine instruction.
The key tasks at this step include:
The key tasks at this step include:
5.1 Examine a wide range of instructional data
5.2 Get clear about the purpose of observation
5.3 Come to a shared understanding of what is happening in classrooms
5.4 Identify a problem of practice
RECOMMENDED AGENDAS
RECOMMENDED AGENDAS
Agenda 1: Prepare to observe
Learn about each team member's previous experiences with peer observations, and build shared understanding of the purpose of low-inference observations.
Agenda 2: Debrief observations and name a problem of practice
Analyze low-inference observations across the team to understand what is happening across classrooms and name a problem of practice.
Meeting materials
Meeting materials
Created by Liz City, this PowerPoint introduces the objectivity-specificity matrix, establishes the importance of low-inference observations, and provides examples that teams can use to calibrate their learning.
What is a Problem of Practice?
This one-pager includes quality indicators and examples.
ALTERNATE AGENDAS
ALTERNATE AGENDAS
POP from Principles of Effective Practice
This agenda is intended to follow the agenda for Step 5 agenda 1, as a potential avenue for using the principles of an effective practice to organize how the team analyzes their observation data in order to name a problem of practice.
Some teams are not yet ready to examine instruction through peer classroom observations, or their learner-centered problem is very aligned with a standard that may not be addressed in the curriculum. This agenda is designed to support the identification of a problem of practice though examining gaps in the curriculum.
Meeting materials
Meeting materials
Use this curriculum analysis tool to audit a unit plan and check whether teacher instruction or student tasks are aligned with the skills, knowledge, and understandings of the standard.
Use this template to identify the nouns, verbs, and adjectives in the language of a standard; unpack that standard into knowledge, skills, and understandings; and name aligned performance tasks.
FOCUS STUDENT INQUIRY AGENDAS
FOCUS STUDENT INQUIRY AGENDAS
Agenda 1: Prepare to observe
Plan a lesson with an individual student in mind, and name implementation indicators to be looked for by an observer.
Agenda 2: Name a problem of practice
Read low-inference transcripts and synthesize trends across classrooms to collaboratively name a problem of practice.
Meeting materials
Meeting materials
Individual student planning template
Use this tool to capture important information about your focus student - such as their assets, interests, and interpersonal learning style - in order to build a lesson tailored to their needs.
Individual student observation template
Use this template to observe a lesson while paying particular attention to a student or small group of students.
Use video to support your low-inference evidence collection!
Use video to support your low-inference evidence collection!
- ClassForward How-To Guide: This highly visual document will walk you through how to sign up for, and use, this sensational new tool.
- ClassForward Video Tutorial: This video gives technology tips, an introduction to the platform, and directions for using the features of the platform.
Resources for collecting low-inference evidence during observations
Resources for collecting low-inference evidence during observations
- Best Practices for Low Inference Notes: This resource outlines strategies, tips, and common pitfalls to avoid when taking low-inference notes during a classroom observation, as well as strong and weak note-taking samples. Use this handout to learn about and calibrate how to take effective observation notes.
- Objectivity/Specificity Matrix: This tool supports teams in making low-inference - specific and descriptive - observations by mapping sample observation notes on continua from specific to general and descriptive to judgmental.
- Teaching video: Use this video to practice taking low-inference notes. Be sure to test it with the technology you'll use!
Low-Inference Transcript Analysis Tools
Low-Inference Transcript Analysis Tools
These tools are intended to support a team in making collective understanding of current practice in order to narrow down to a specific Problem of Practice. Teams use the tools to analyze low-inference notes/transcripts using a specific lens.
- Participation Analysis Tool: Use this tool to analyze patterns in student participation, orally and in writing.
- Feedback Analysis Tool: Use this tool to analyze patterns in the feedback students receive during lessons.
- Question Analysis Tool: Use this tool to analyze patterns in the questions posed to students, orally and in writing.
- Rapport Interaction Analysis Tool: Use this tool to analyze patterns in how teachers interact with students.
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