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Promoting Reflective Practice Local District 6 February 18, 2005

Promoting Reflective Practice Local District 6 February 18, 2005. Ideas for Today and Tomorrow. Sustaining Instructional Improvement Through Nested Learning Communities.

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Promoting Reflective Practice Local District 6 February 18, 2005

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  1. Promoting Reflective PracticeLocal District 6February 18, 2005 Ideas for Today and Tomorrow

  2. Sustaining Instructional Improvement Through Nested Learning Communities • Teachers should be working together to design or study research-based curriculum that reflects the best thinking in each subject area • Richard DuFour and Robert Eaker in Professional Learning Communities at Work

  3. The Grade Level, Interdisciplinary Team, or Content Team Meeting is the Context for the work • Linked to specific curriculum • Close to the classroom • May involve model or concept lessons • Focuses on needs of EL students • Data driven with urgency for students below and far below basic • Aligned to MCD outcomes for students with disabilities

  4. Homework from last time focused on observations in classrooms • Secondary use of EL scaffolds in classrooms • Elementary observation of a second grade classrooms

  5. How Do We Promote Reflective Practice? • Feedback to teachers that includes reflective questioning • Team learning community meetings that engages teachers in reflective dialogue about challenges, assessment data, model lessons, and student work

  6. How do we as administrators help with reflective practice? • Every classroom visit is an opportunity • In a 5 minute visit, what do we see that is working and what can we ask that will deepen the teacher’s thinking about how to scaffold all students to the proficiency of standards?

  7. Building Learning Communities • Foster collective inquiry by: • Posing questions that focuses attention on students and building skills and knowledge needed to demonstrate proficiency on standards • Training staff in collective inquiry, team building and trying out new practice

  8. Practice with Video Clip • What is working in this lesson and classroom? • What can we ask that will cause this teacher to reflect on current practice and consider new ways of engaging students?

  9. Stems for the Reflective Question • “I noticed that…..What additional strategies or activities might you consider in order to assure that…..” Please consider and get back to me by… • “Some students…..How might you be able to enhance this activity or lesson so that these students…..” See me in a week with your ideas.

  10. Video Clip of a Lesson • Identify features of the lesson that are positive • Formulate one reflective question designed to engage the teacher in thinking more deeply about her practice

  11. Balanced Collaborative and Reflective Leaders: • Hold themselves out as learners • Focus on teaching practices in their classroom visits • Debrief in a constructive manner with conversation that established a cycle of continuous learning (reflective questioning) • Opens possibilities for teachers trying out new practices in a safe environment

  12. Goals for Today • Model strategies for engaging teachers in reflective practice in order to enhance development of nested learning communities • Provide opportunities for level alike administrators to continue their work as communities of practice in LD 6

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