Warner Update
Nov. 11 - 16
Using the Research to Change
"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."
- Nelson Mandela
One of my biggest pet peeves is Einstein's famous quote on insanity, to paraphrase: We do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.
Recently I've been researching Hattie's Influences on Student Achievement. Did you know the NUMBER 1 Influence on student achievement is Teacher Efficacy. You may be saying, what is that?
Teacher Efficacy is when a teacher believes in their own ability to guide their students to success. (Armor et al., 1976; Bandura, 1977).
Efficacy—or a teacher’s level of confidence about their ability
The Number 5 Influence on student achievement is Response To Intervention. I found this to be critical, because the past few years have shown that our interventions have made a very small impact.
Why is this?
If we dive deeper into Hattie's research we would see that ability grouping and pull out support has an Effect Size of .30.
On the other end, Deliberate/Targeted Practice has an Effect Size of .79.
For the most part our past interventions have not been targeted enough. The question is, are they targeted now? Only you and your teaching partner(s) can answer this.
If we choose to flip Hattie's model and look at what is negatively impacting learning we would see that the number 1 deterrent to learning is ADHD. Unfortunately the number of students struggling with attention is only rising. Just this year a report was released stating that our attention span is now less than that of a goldfish. The average attention span is down from 12 seconds in the year 2000 to eight seconds now? That is less than the nine-second attention span of your average goldfish.
I share this because we can either take the information given to us and use it to make changes or we can press on and do it the way we've always done it.
My focus is not on what is easy, I want to make changes that will have positive impacts on our school and community.
Take this for an example: A group of students in a class is dealing with conflict. Is the best solution to simply separate the students and tell them to not interact? Does this change behavior? Does this improve the reasons for the conflict? If a resolution is going to occur we need to rethink how we solve problems. Sometimes dealing with messy issues takes time. But if we do nothing, nothing will change.
Next Week At A Glance:
Monday, Nov. 12th: Board Work Session 5:30pm
Tuesday, Nov. 13th: 9am Admin Meeting
Tuesday, Nov. 13th: PM Lockdown
Tuesday, Nov. 13th: After-School Running Club
Wednesday, Nov. 14th: Grades 3-5 Assembly in cafeteria 8:45am
Wednesday, Nov. 14th: PLC Wednesday
- Review Quarter 2 Formative Assessments
- Discuss Quarter 2 Essential Standard level of mastery based on formative assessments
- Plan upcoming WIN time
Thursday, Nov. 15th: Ben at JCISD for day 2 of 2 Training
Friday, Nov. 16th: Staff Meeting in Mrs. Soper's room 8am
Please Remember...
- Schedule your Goals and Growth Meeting with me
- Set up class observations after the goals and growth meeting