Mind Frame 3
Directions
Read about Mind Frame 3. After you have read about the mind frame, complete the activity at the bottom of the page in your Zombie Survival Guide.
Mind Frame 3: Teachers want to talk more about the learning than the teaching.
Key Question: How do you work with other teachers about what the team means by progress and impact?
Guiding Questions: As a team, what are the common strategies and ideas that you want to instill in your students? How will you implement those strategies and ideas? How will you analyze the impact of the changes to determine if the strategies and ideas are producing the desired results?
Teachers do not need additional professional development sessions where they are presented with a new strategy or a new method for teaching. Teachers need opportunities to have the deep, reflective conversations about how their current students are learning, conversations about the evidence of learning, and specific ideas on how to help students to learn differently. Teachers need a place where they can work as a team to develop multiple ways of teaching and learning, model different ways of learning, and to analyze student errors to enhance feedback and redirection.
Critical Questions for Teacher Collaboration
What do we want all students to know and be able to do?
How will we know if they learn it?
How will we respond when some students do not learn?
How will we extend the learning for students who are already proficient?
Visible Learning: The Sequel
A Synthesis of Over 2,100 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement
Coaching
Hattie's study produced data that showed a positive effect on student test scores and the coaching support that teachers received in the classroom. Setting goals, discussing lessons and data, and making a plan of action with a coach does have positive impacts on student achievement. Coaching can happen individually or in a group setting like a professional learning community (PLC).
Zombie Survival Guide
Open your survival guide and find the Mind Frames Reflection area.
Write the one word that you would use to describe Mind Frame 3.