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Voices From the Field

Voices From the Field. Name: Vince Campolongo Board: Wellington Catholic DSB Learning Team Facilitator (Professional Learning Cycle). Engaging Boys – A Collaborative Inquiry Project Challenges, Responses and Tools. Vince Campolongo Vice-Principal Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic High School.

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Voices From the Field

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  1. Voices From the Field Name: Vince Campolongo Board: Wellington Catholic DSB Learning Team Facilitator (Professional Learning Cycle)

  2. Engaging Boys – A Collaborative Inquiry ProjectChallenges, Responses and Tools Vince Campolongo Vice-Principal Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic High School

  3. Overview of Presentation • 2011-12 School Improvement Context • Collaborative Inquiry • A Shift In Thinking • Challenges • Responses • Tools

  4. 2010-11 Literacy Collaborative Inquiry Project • Student comprehension needs were assessed through moderated marking of a diagnostic (Plan) • Student needs were addressed by explicitly teaching a literacy strategy (Act) • Differentiation in the context of using gradual release (Act) • Measuring success through artefacts that showed student progress using the strategy (Observe)

  5. 2011-12 School Improvement Plan

  6. 2011-12 School Improvement

  7. Inquiry Based • Professional Learning Cycle guides the process • Purposeful staffing of targeted courses with teachers that were open minded and/or had experience with professional learning • 10 teachers were chosen • Half of these teachers were involved in collaborative inquiry devoted to supporting cross-curricular reading comprehension in the previous year • 1 full day for orientation and 3 half days of facilitated sessions in semester 1 • 4 “vulnerable” students identified in targeted courses and these are used to track progress

  8. Assessing Student Needs • A survey (My Opinion Matters) was designed by the group to empower students and to develop lessons that were correlated to self-identified interests, needs and strategies that would promote engagement • Student need was substantiated from both survey results and teacher observations • Student work was used as the foundation for focused professional learning conversations

  9. Moving From… To… Instructional decisions based on student need • Instructional decisions based on teacher preferences

  10. Facilitation Challenges and Response Plan Challenge • It was common for participants to want to implement a familiar strategy for the entire class Response • More emphasis and time on analyzing the diagnostic data and on creating profiles first to support correlating instructional decisions to need • Grouping teachers according to common strategies to co-plan and using coaching to support co-planning • Focus on supporting teachers in creating a maximum of 3 flexible groupings to meet more student needs

  11. Tools Class Profiles Teacher Groupings Coaching Between Sessions

  12. Source: Learning For All Draft Document, Ministry of Education, 2011

  13. Moving From… To… Teaching-Learning Connections • Conversations that describe what was done during the lesson

  14. Facilitation Challenges and Response Facilitation Challenge • Descriptions of what was done during a lesson created a superficial focus on the actions of teachers which led to discussions on how to replicate the lesson Response • Facilitators need to model questions that shift the conversations from “story telling” to how teaching decisions and actions influence student learning • There needs to be an expectation that participants use specific artifacts to respond to these questions

  15. Tools Question Prompts

  16. Moving From… To… Gathering rich data which can guide teacher adjustments that are most likely to impact on student learning • Major Emphasis on Achieving a SMART goal

  17. Facilitation Challenges and Changes Observe Challenge • When the SMART goal becomes the major focus, what is lost is the dialogue that centres around student learning and progress Response • Student work can come in many forms but the use of appropriate organizational structures, such as graphic organizers to help students gather, organize, manage and communicate information and ideas can form rich data that visibly shows student learning

  18. Tools Focus on student learning needs FIRST

  19. Still Working On… • Researching and adopting formal indicators of engagement to be used for assessment • Incorporating co-teaching to provide more visibility into the classroom environment that supports the teaching-learning dynamic Thank You! vcampolongo@wellingtoncdsb.ca 519 836-2170 Ext. 103503

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