December 1, 2014 Teacher eLC Time!
Improving our Practice with Data Analysis! Live Meeting TIME
Welcome back! eLC time for the Weeks of December 1, 2014 and December 8, 2014
As we begin to look to the end of the Fall 2014 semester, it is a great time to meet live and discuss what your has been discussing together asynchronously during October and November. During this live meeting time with your team and your Instructional Director, you will reflect on our learning from the weeks of data review and where our next steps should be headed.
We ended the last two weeks with a summation reflection to connect your data reflections with the DuFours' Four Critical Questions which become our focus based on what the data tells us:
If our Pass Rates (or Mastery Chart progress for CR or student progression for OCS) are not where they need to be for the learning that needs to happen, what then? This is where we begin to reframe our approach as we look at student performance on a daily basis and apply the DuFour Four Critical Questions.
As we talked about for the last few weeks, just because we look at data means little; "The fact that teachers collaborate will do nothing to improve a school. The purpose of collaboration can only be accomplished if the professionals engaged in collaboration are focused on the right things."
DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., & Many, T. (2006). Building the Collaborative Culture of a Professional Learning Community. In Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (p. 91). Bloomington, Ind.: Solution Tree.
By focusing on the "right things," we can impact student learning!
Here are your last three reflection questions you completed:
Reflection #10 Week of November 10th: What sentence from Rebecca DuFour's brief video talk stands out to you? How should this thought change/improve/extend the work we do daily with student learning data?
Reflection #11 Week of November 10th: How can your team take the DuFours' Four Critical Questions and apply them to the daily student performance you see everyday with your students?
Reflection #12 Week of November 10th: If you team could make one instructional improvement right now to improve students learning, what would it be?
These are the questions you will be discussing LIVE with your team and with you IL and Instructional Director. If you are an EOC or AP teacher, your Instructional Director has additional data you will use for reflection as well for the activity below.
Your Instructional Leader will copy the new eLC tab (December 1, 2014) into your eLC Google document spreadsheet entitled, "YOUR COURSE eLC Reflections 2014 - 2015."
Using the December 1, 2014 tab, record your team's answers to this question:
Based on the data reflection conversations you have with your team, IL, and Instructional Director in the LIVE meeting, please list your team's action steps moving forward. Only one team member needs to record, but please include the teachers' names involved in the discussion.
Please include as many details as you need. This information is critical because it will inform our eLC direction for Spring 2015!
We ended the last two weeks with a summation reflection to connect your data reflections with the DuFours' Four Critical Questions which become our focus based on what the data tells us:
1. What do we want our students to learn?
2. How will we know if each student has learned it?
3. What do we do when some students don't learn it?
4. How can we extend and enrich the learning for students who have demonstrated proficiency?If our Pass Rates (or Mastery Chart progress for CR or student progression for OCS) are not where they need to be for the learning that needs to happen, what then? This is where we begin to reframe our approach as we look at student performance on a daily basis and apply the DuFour Four Critical Questions.
As we talked about for the last few weeks, just because we look at data means little; "The fact that teachers collaborate will do nothing to improve a school. The purpose of collaboration can only be accomplished if the professionals engaged in collaboration are focused on the right things."
DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., & Many, T. (2006). Building the Collaborative Culture of a Professional Learning Community. In Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (p. 91). Bloomington, Ind.: Solution Tree.
By focusing on the "right things," we can impact student learning!
Here are your last three reflection questions you completed:
Reflection #10 Week of November 10th: What sentence from Rebecca DuFour's brief video talk stands out to you? How should this thought change/improve/extend the work we do daily with student learning data?
Reflection #11 Week of November 10th: How can your team take the DuFours' Four Critical Questions and apply them to the daily student performance you see everyday with your students?
Reflection #12 Week of November 10th: If you team could make one instructional improvement right now to improve students learning, what would it be?
These are the questions you will be discussing LIVE with your team and with you IL and Instructional Director. If you are an EOC or AP teacher, your Instructional Director has additional data you will use for reflection as well for the activity below.
Your Instructional Leader will copy the new eLC tab (December 1, 2014) into your eLC Google document spreadsheet entitled, "YOUR COURSE eLC Reflections 2014 - 2015."
Using the December 1, 2014 tab, record your team's answers to this question:
Based on the data reflection conversations you have with your team, IL, and Instructional Director in the LIVE meeting, please list your team's action steps moving forward. Only one team member needs to record, but please include the teachers' names involved in the discussion.
Please include as many details as you need. This information is critical because it will inform our eLC direction for Spring 2015!
THANK YOU for your work these weeks!
We will resume eLCs in February, but don't stop looking daily at your data! Your Instructional Director will help you to know where your team will go from here with the conclusions you have done based on your reflections! GOOD WORK, team NCVPS!
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