IE Team Weekly Update
Edition #2 January 11-15
the 411 - Things to Know
- Elementary coaches should plan to attend one day of the Assessment for Learning this week to learn and work alongside the ELA writers on assessment design. Register in Keep Certified by searching for Assessment for Learning, Day 2.
Tuesday 1/12, Grade K-1 writers
Wednesday 1/13, Grade 2-3 writers
Thursday 1/14, Grade 4-6 writers
- Our next Instructional Coaches meeting is on Friday, January 15th from 8:00am-11:00am at ASC in the Riley & Mill Creek rooms. Prior to this meeting, please read the segment below in Coaching for Excellence and watch the video link. Bring your iPad with the Post It Note App downloaded. We will be sharing what Instructional Excellence means and profile of a learner assignments, please be ready to access these. Register in Keep Certified by searching for Instructional Coaches.
- Take a moment to subscribe to the IE team You Tube playlist where you'll find videos of EPS teachers and also a collection of videos for professional learning. Upload your own videos by following these instructions.
- If you're participating in the Teaching Reading in Small Groups course, please complete the entire course, session #4-6 prior to our workshop on January 22nd. Complete this form if you're requesting the training rate for completing this learning. Register in Keep Certified by searching for Teaching Reading in Small Groups.
Professional Learning Section
Coaching for Excellence
1. Busyness of Teaching - Inside our classrooms "teachers are making somewhere between 800 and 1,500 decisions everyday" (Introduction to Teaching: Becoming a Professional Kauchak & Eggen, 2005, p.55) Between delivering material monitoring student learning, engagement and behavior it becomes extremely difficult to step back and take in everything happening in the classroom while teaching. Video allows the opportunity for the teacher to see what they may have missed and offers time to reflect upon their practice and most importantly make observations of student learning.
2. Habituation - Many professionals struggle with as sense of habituation, this happens when we lose our sensitivity to things we experience repeatedly. This can cause teachers to forget the true joy of this work, the importance in empowering students and what it means to truly teach. Teachers may also stop seeing children when they aren't learning, disengagement may not be easily recognized during class. The use of video allows teachers the chance to notice students and experience the art of their craft in a new way.
3. Confirmation Bias - This is the tendency to look for data which supports our preexisisting beliefs, attitudes and bias. Health and Health (2013) describe confirmation bias as our natural tendency to seek data to support our assumptions. The use of video gives us a clear picture of reality and assists in confronting our bias through reflection of student learning and our instruction.
Video becomes a powerful tool as it cuts through habituation, confirmation bias and the complexity of teaching to give a true picture of what is happening. This video clip give an overview of coaching with video and the powerful impact this can have on student learning.
Instructional Excellence
Comprehensive Balanced Literacy EC-12
How can you use this article and the idea of setting goals for reading with those you coach?
Instructional Coaches Meeting
Friday, Jan 15, 2016, 08:00 AM
ASC - Riley Creek & Mill Creek Meeting Rooms (formerly North A&B)
Learning Studio Workshop
Tuesday, Jan 12, 2016, 04:00 PM
ASC - Eagles Development Center
Teaching Reading in Small Groups Sessions 4-6
Friday, Jan 22, 2016, 12:00 PM
ASC - Eagles Development Center
Assessment for Learning
Tuesday 1/12, Grade K-1 writers
Wednesday 1/13, Grade 2-3 writers
Thursday 1/14, Grade 4-6 writers