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By Jamie Averbeck @AverbeckTech
To be a responsive and productive PLC, we know we have to clearly define what students need to know (Right Video). We've gone through and will continually go through the process of defining essential standards and prerequisite skills to ground our PLC work.
To be a responsive and productive PLC, we know we have to clearly define what students need to know (Right Video). We've gone through and will continually go through the process of defining essential standards and prerequisite skills to ground our PLC work.
How can we take that work, not only utilizing it for collaborative PLC time, but for daily in our classrooms for student success?
Hattie, in Visible Learning, reports that Teacher Clarity has an effect size of 0.75.
When teachers are clear in expectations and instruction, students learn more.
In the article, Teacher Clarity: A Potent Yet Misunderstood Teaching Strategy , Shaun Killian diagrams (right image) the different aspects of teacher clarity.
Killian highlights the following points:
Students need to be clear about what they need to know, why they are learning it, and how we, as teachers, will know they've learned it.
We have to check for understanding throughout the process, using a formative assessment to find out if students are clear on what it is they are supposed to learn.
The design of these formative assessments should be similar to our summative assessments.
The design and sequence of our lessons should include explicit directions for students to see the logical pathway of their understanding and learning.
Throughout the entire process we need to have CLEAR EXPECTATIONS, MODEL what our students need to do, constantly CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING...and be FLEXIBLE with our teaching, re-teaching, and timelines.
"If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up some place else." -Yogi Berra
"If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up some place else." -Yogi Berra
A great tech tool to ground our work in teacher clarity, is Rubrics in Google Classroom. The video tutorial on the right will walk you through how to create a rubric, add criteria, identify how the scoring is calculated, and how to see the final score, all within Google Classroom.
The rubric tool in Google Classroom is perfect for helping with teacher clarity because it lets students know what is expected, it provides the opportunity for detailed feedback, and it helps guide your instruction. That sounds familiar?...see the Killian research above.
The best part of these Google Classroom rubrics is the ability to reuse, add to, and share! This isn't just a great tool for teacher clarity and feedback, it's a great tool for COMMON teacher clarity and feedback within your department and/or grade level.
Supportive Articles and Videos:
Clarify Expectations with NEW Rubrics in Google Classroom
By Jessica Powell
Finally! Google Classroom Rubrics that can be Reused!
by The Techy Coach
Google Classroom Rubrics - Creating, Reusing, & Sharing
by Jen Johnson
Using Originality Reports and Rubrics in Google Classroom
by Greg DaSilva
Using Rubrics in Google Classroom
by Eric Curts
Teacher Clarity: Finding the 'Why'
by Phil Stubbs
How to Empower Student Learning with Teacher Clarity
by Corwin
5 Mindframes for Teacher Clarity
by Kim Watts
Engagement by Design
by Doug Fisher (19:05 Teacher Clarity, what does success look like).
The hope of this blog is to tie in the important work we do at the PLC level around a teaching practice we know impacts student achievement...Teacher Clarity, 0.75 Effect Size! As we continue our work around "What we want students to learn", we need to strategically plan for how we continually communicate to our students what, why, and how they are to learn. Being purposeful with teacher clarity.
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