Do you want your child's teacher to have the time to
analyze student work and develop a keen eye for diagnosing mistakes and misunderstandings?
As Craig Jerald described in a 2012 report, «inspectors observe classroom lessons,
analyze student work, speak with students and staff members, examine school records, and scrutinize the results of surveys administered to parents and students.»
Those peers also gain flexible time they can use to learn from their excellent colleagues and to collaboratively
analyze student work and data, and to plan what's next for students.
Mentors met with new teachers one - on - one almost every week, giving lesson - planning advice and helping to
analyze student work.
As part of our professional development (PD) at Two Rivers Public Charter School, we meet at least three times a semester with a group of colleagues to
analyze student work.
They then
analyze student work to look for specific, concrete evidence of what students understand, and brainstorm actionable feedback about how to improve their colleague's instruction.
Also, foster opportunities to
analyze student work and showcase students.
(See
Analyze Student Work to Inform Instruction and The Power of Vulnerability in Professional Development.)
The process is thorough and rigorous:» [I] nspectors observe classroom lessons,
analyze student work, speak with students and staff members, examine school records, and scrutinize the results of surveys administered to parents and students,» he notes.
Creating a structure for conversations also helps Seidel «to wring every last ounce of learning» out of the second part of each session, which focuses on
analyzing student work.
Each participant will
analyze student work to identify where students are on a learning progression, identify the common misconceptions, and then develop and plan next instructional steps.
Coaches may for instance talk to teachers about their goals for student learning and then observe specific students in the classroom, or help teachers
analyze student work and make decisions about the next day's lesson.
English inspectors, Jerald notes, «observe classroom lessons,
analyze student work, speak with students and staff members, examine school records, and scrutinize the results of surveys administered to parents and students.»
Teachers recorded their classroom observations and
analyzed student work created during the units.
To develop specially designed instruction for each student with a learning disability, educators and parents work together to
analyze student work, evaluation information, and any other available data to determine the student's strengths and weaknesses.
A lot of the time we spend together is
analyzing student work and test data so we can design more effective ways of helping students in areas of high intervention.»
During their year as graduate students, BEST Noyce scholars meet weekly to discuss current events in education, watch and discuss video of classroom instruction, and
analyze student work.
Administrators who are the most successful at overseeing positive student learning outcomes create, support, and fight enthusiastically to sustain time for teachers to work together at mentoring,
analyzing student work, doing peer observation and feedback, and engaging in dialogue about improving instruction.
The funding allows us to continue professional development throughout the summer where
we analyze student work and plan how to meet their needs immediately in fall.
Although
analyzing student work has become an increasingly popular way for teachers to improve student learning, 1 teaching students how to analyze their own work has received less attention.
In this online piece, Chism discusses a tool he's developed to help teachers and teacher coaches observe and
analyze student work and student reactions to learning in order to understand instructional impact.
Summary: When professional learning communities (PLCs) meet frequently to examine and
analyze student work and data, higher levels of teacher morale emerge, according to a new report from the Learning Sciences International (LSI) research team.
Teachers are asking for additional content area - specific collaboration time to design lessons or
analyze student work.
In this article, the authors describe a study in which teachers study a mathematics learning progression for measuring area and use that progression to
analyze student work.
Most people can not simply get this clear picture by simply perusing their learning goals — it can help to take and reflect on your end - of - year assessment,
analyze student work samples, talk to colleagues and review curriculum guides.
With the proliferation of data teams, lesson study groups, and professional learning communities, teachers today have plenty of opportunities to
analyze student work together.
Wake County's documents include a program flyer, an overview PowerPoint, and several classroom teacher resources for
analyzing student work and getting to know students as individuals.
Teachers meet weekly to examine and
analyze student work and to plan instruction.
By collaboratively
analyzing student work, teachers discover the relationship between their instruction and student performance on classroom assessments and other samples of student work.
We don't create work for you: We make the work you're already doing — planning from standards,
analyzing student work and assessment data to adapt teaching, and drawing conclusions that can make your teaching more powerful — easier and more effective.
Use this protocol on your own or with your team to
analyze student work.
Teachers should still
analyze student work and data to uncover student thinking and guide where they spend time and energy — this practice should not be abandoned.
This resource provides an easily accessible, yet powerful way for teachers to elicit and
analyze student work that truly reflects student thinking.
By
analyzing student work — particularly their errors — we gain insight into students» mathematical thinking.
Look at student work in order to get to the depth of meaning of those standards (
analyze student work and ask students to do the same)
She provides leadership in designing effective comprehensive assessment systems, including guidance on the development of performance assessments and rubrics, facilitating deep understanding of cognitive rigor, scoring and
analyzing student work, and deepening understanding of assessment and data literacy.
For example, we use the «consultancy protocol» to work through a problem or dilemma that might arise when
we analyze student work.
The mentors use a system of NTC - developed online formative assessments and tools to develop teachers» skills in planning lessons,
analyzing student work, and using data to inform instruction, among others.
Once the pre-lesson assessment is administered, teachers
analyze the student work to determine misconceptions and create feedback questions that will move the learners and learning forward.
As teachers meet together to plan units and
analyze student work, the discussions lead to sharing teaching strategies and planning rich learning experiences to meet the needs of students.
We see Sara
analyze student work and plan for future instruction.
In formative coaching, teaches and coaches
analyze student work to determine next steps for instruction.
Candidates
analyze student work to determine student progress toward and mastery of lesson and unit learning objectives while identifying trends in the data that may reveal inequitable outcomes for various student groups.
• Understand how to
analyze student work; • Understand how to analyze common assessments and other local student learning data sources; • Accurately identify a weakness in student understanding through analysis of item level data, student work, and triangulation of multiple data sources.
We will then explore and discuss exemplary EfS assessment instruments, and engage in the process of
analyzing student work for evidence of the knowledge, skills and attitudes that characterize Education for Sustainability.
Not exact matches
After learning of Burger's methods, McGill University education professor Jon Bradley says he would consider taking a similar approach in his own classroom — encouraging
students to
analyze their
work the way sports fans obsess over how the home team might do better next season.
As an educational consultant, I often
work with
students to test and
analyze college majors that would be a good fit for them.
Working together, they will develop and test a variety of learning experiences in which
students use online simulations to model energy - releasing and energy - requiring reactions,
analyze and interpret data to make predictions about energy phenomena, and use evidence from their own observations or from simplified versions of scientific articles to explain phenomena and construct and critique arguments.
In this intense and demanding
work environment,
students learn to do pricing model design and verification, parameter estimation, and learn to
analyze and manage risk in their state - of - the - art computational facilities, gaining hands on practical experience.
«By
analyzing how teachers evaluated their
students»
work on an NGSS - aligned task, we were able to get a good sense of what teachers knew about key aspects of NGSS, knowledge we believe is necessary for successful NGSS implementation.»