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Identify Questions:
Identify Questions:
The questions below are from Jim Knight's The Impact Cycle (2018, pp. 84-97). They are designed to help your candidates think critically and honestly to identify a goal to improve their classroom practices. These will help your candidate identify a PEERS goal, which is powerful, easy, emotionally compelling, reachable, and student-focused.
On a scale of 1-10, with 1 being the worst lesson you’ve taught and 10 being the best lesson you’ve taught, how would you rank that lesson?
What pleased you about the lesson?
What would you have to change to move the lesson closer to a 10?
What would your students be doing differently if your class were a 10?
Tell me more about what that might look like.
How could we measure that change?
Do you want that to be your goal?
If you could hit that goal, would it really matter to you?
What teaching strategy can you use to hit your goal?
What are your next steps?
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What's on your candidate's mind?
Try these questions to confirm the direction your candidate wants to go (The Impact Cycle, 2018, pp.134-136):
Given the time we have today, what's the most important thing for us to talk about?
What's on your mind?
And What Else?
How can you help your candidate reflect?
Review their progress with these questions (The Impact Cycle, 2018, pp.136-138):
What has gone well?
What are you seeing that shows this strategy is successful?
What progress has been made toward the goal?
What did you learn?
What roadblocks are you running into?
And What Else?
How can you help your candidate through roadblocks and difficulties?
Jim Knight advises inventing improvements and reminding them that teachers (or people in general) don't usually hit their goal after one try at something new. True and lasting improvement takes time and practice. Ask them these questions to help them think about their chosen goals and the strategy to get them there (The Impact Cycle, 2018, pp.140-148). *Note: These are the only yes/no questions, and follow-up questions from other areas should be asked.
Do you want to keep using the strategy as it is?
Do you want to revisit how you use the teaching strategy?
Do you want to choose a new strategy?
Do you want to change the way we measure progress toward the goal?
Do you want to change the goal?
After taking careful notes, how might you maintain forward momentum and hold your candidate accountable?
Try these questions (The Impact Cycle, 2018, pp.151-153) :
When should we meet again?
What tasks have to be done before we meet?
When will those tasks be done?
Who will do them?
On a scale of 1-5, how committed are you to this goal now?
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