The following questions will help guide your work toward ensuring instructional excellence in every classroom. Each question has a hyperlink to a resource depository where you will place documents, evidence, and/or artifacts from your work. This repository can also be used to provide resources to teams that are having trouble answering a question. Additionally, your Project Momentum support team may assist you with feedback and needed resources along the way.
How does the school support teacher teams to guarantee alignment across standards, learning targets, and lessons for each unit of study?
How are objectives, learning targets, and success criteria made visible to students in the classroom? How do teachers engage students around these learning targets?
How does the school ensure that processes/protocols are in place to support teacher teams to plan instruction that includes:
coherent lesson structure with a clear beginning, middle, and end
focused instruction that connects to the learning target, and explains the objective, big ideas and concepts to be learned
engaging activities, differentiated by student readiness for challenge or scaffolding, based on data from prior learning
inviting classroom settings structured for learning, effective routines, and supportive classroom management practices
frequent checks for understanding and evidence that gathered data is used in a timely manner to adjust instructional practice
a brief assessment of student understanding near the conclusion of the lesson that can be used to guide future instruction
time throughout the lesson and at closure to summarize what has been learned and allow students to reflect and make meaning from what they have learned
How does the school work to ensure that learning experiences support students in developing the essential background knowledge and vocabulary needed to enhance academic achievement?
How do collaborative teams ensure that students remain actively engaged throughout their learning?
How has the school built collaborative meeting structures to ensure that all teacher teams engage in a continuous cycle of observation, feedback, and shared collaborative work to improve instructional practice and advance student outcomes?
How has the school ensured that the products of collaborative team work around assessment are cataloged and saved in accordance with the established protocol within the online repository?
School Artifacts - Store your files here for answering this section.