Module - Providing In the Moment Feedback
- 1.5 hours
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This module includes the following:
- video explaining Teacher "Time Outs"
- video demonstrating Teacher "Time Outs"
- Preparing for Time Outs with your Student Teacher
- Debriefing your Time Out sessions
- Additional resources
*This material is adapted from University of Washington College of Education: Teacher Education by Design https://tedd.org/activities/teacher-time-out/
This video shows a group of teachers using Teacher Time Outs.
This is a video from The Teaching Channel. Although it depicts a group of teachers using the Teacher Time Out strategy and it is an elementary classroom, it can be adapted for you and your student teacher no matter your grade level.
Click on the picture to be taken to the video.
Planning for Teacher Time Outs
Teacher Time Out is about collaboratively considering different instructional decisions and how they impact student learning. In order to do this, everyone needs to have some shared ownership of the lesson and similar goals in mind. Co-planning the lesson and anticipating where you might use Teacher Time Out allow you to develop these shared ideas for the classroom visit. Below are some things to consider in preparing to use Teacher Time Out with a group of educators:
Sample Norms for Teacher Time Out
- Decide before each lesson, who can pause instruction and pose a question? Anyone or just the lead teacher?
- Bring a sense of curiosity about teaching and learning. Be willing to play with ideas.
- Everyone is responsible for listening carefully to students.
- Conversation during Teacher Time Out should position educators and students competently.
- During the planning time, come to some agreement about your learning goals for the lesson. This might sound like, “We want to try using a linear model to help students understand multiplicative comparison,” or like, “I wonder what strategies students might use to interpret this metaphor?”
- Based on these goals, where are some places in the lesson the group might want to call a Teacher Time Out? For example,
- When deciding where to go with the discussion: follow up on one students’ idea or elicit other ideas
- After students turn-and-talk, to find out whether students shared some of the ideas that we anticipated
- If someone hears an explanation that would really help us get to our instructional goal
- Who will be taking the lead on the lesson? Would they like to call the first time out? Are they comfortable having other people call time out?
- Note: As mentor, it may be nice to offer yourself as the first one to lead so that you can demonstrate opening up your practice, call time out yourself, or invite others to call time out.
- Plan to explain Teacher Time Out to students. “Teachers are learners too! Today we might pause during the lesson to talk to each other about what we are learning from you.”
- Encourage your student teacher to sit among the students so that they can hear what students are thinking. Remember, this is not about observing, but about working together to learn from students and make decisions in the moment.
*This material is adapted from University of Washington College of Education: Teacher Education by Design https://tedd.org/activities/teacher-time-out/
After each experience with Teacher Time-outs, it is beneficial to debrief the session. Use these questions to help guide your discussion.
*This material is adapted from University of Washington College of Education: Teacher Education by Design https://tedd.org/activities/teacher-time-out/
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