What do high school teachers want need to hear from their principals Life After the Walk-Through

1. What do high school teachers want (need) to hear from their principals?Life After the Walk-Through Robin Washam, School Improvement Facilitator High School Mathematics Teacher

2. You did a fantastic job! I can tell that the students really like you. See you next year.

3. That education doesn�t happen in a vacuum. That student achievement is our reason for being at a school. That school building expectations include planning, sharing, and training And even Tiger Woods has a coach. What teachers need to hear and to recognize is

4. Beginning Teacher (sometime in the dark ages, also known as the sixties) Characteristics Young and a cool dresser with great shoes Egotistical (thought I knew how to teach since the students liked me, they really just liked the shoes) Poor classroom management skills, struggled to make it to Friday Absolutely no pedagogical skills, the way l learned should work for all Belief that if students just did their homework, all would be good

5. Sometime between mini and maxi skirts (between year 3 and 10?) Characteristics Committed to teaching Starting to think of students� learning Classroom management under control Realize link between what I do and students learning Enjoy my job Enjoy trainings and seminars and teacher conferences

6. Okay it was a mid life crisis Characteristics Started to look outside the box Realized how much I didn�t know Really thought about students learning Lots of experimentation Absolute passion for my work Presented at trainings and seminars and teacher conferences

7. Sometime after the turn of the century Characteristics Believe there has been a decline in the standards for students and for younger teachers Pulling away from students and school Students and parents were more serious about education in the old days. Conservative in teaching strategies

8. Student Discourse Student Justification Student reflection Challenging Curriculum Equity

9. Beginning teacher Stabilization and Diversification The Passion Serenity, Conservatism Disengagement

10. Video Clip 1 Ms. Green, Special Education Math Class, New Curriculum, Experienced teacher, probably at serenity, conservatism stage In a team of three, one role play the principal, one the teacher, and one an observer. Practice the debrief for 5 minutes (What went well, what didn�t go well, etc) Discuss what you saw in the video, where you would want to go with this teacher, and how the debrief worked.

11. Video Clip 2 Mr. Wise, IMP 2 (a post reform book with 10th graders), new curriculum, graduated here using Saxon, started teaching here with Saxon, probably in stabilization and diversification stage In a team of three, one role play the principal, one the teacher, and one an observer. Practice the debrief for 5 minutes (What went well, what didn�t go well, etc) Discuss what you saw in the video, where you would want to go with this teacher, and how the debrief worked.

12. The real Mr. Wise already has had an epiphany, is in a teaching lab classroom, and is coaching not only teachers in his building, but the surrounding area. This just didn�t happen on its own. It took some pretty good principals to help the process along.