Effective Teaching Enhancing Professional Practices

1. Effective Teaching Enhancing Professional Practices The Basheer Qusim School PS 53X Principal- Collin M. Wolfe Ed.D

2. What Can Improve Your Effectiveness as a Teacher? • Planning and Preparation • Classroom Environment • Instruction

3. Planning and Preparation • Demonstrating Knowledge of Content and Pedagogy • Demonstrating Knowledge of Students • Setting Instructional Outcomes • Demonstrating Knowledge of Resources • Designing Coherent Instruction • Designing Student Assessments

4. Planning and Preparation For the instruction year 2011-2012, at PS 53X are focusing on Deigning Coherent Instruction

5. Deigning Coherent Instruction by • Learning activities that engage students as they advance in content • Instructional materials and resources that meet the needs of your students • Instructional groups that support the students’ learning needs • Lesson and unit structure with sequenced unveiling of content

6. Are you designing coherent instruction? • Are learning activities matched to instructional outcomes? • Does higher level thinking take place in your classroom? • Do students have the opportunity to explore challenging materials or resources? • Does small group instruction build on students’ strengths? • Are your lessons structured with reasonable time allocations? • Are you lessons differentiated to meet individual needs of students?

7. Classroom Environment Staff at PS 53X have two foci for classroom environment: Establishing Culture for learning and Managing Student Behavior

8. Classroom EnvironmentEstablishing a Culture for Learning • Teachers convey the education value of what is being taught to the students. • Clear expectation for what students are learning and their expected achievement level. • Students pride in their work is reflected in their interactions with classmates and teachers.

9. Have you established a culture of learning? • Do you portray a genuine passion for the content? • Do you communicate the importance of learning and hard work to your students? • Are you conscience of students ability and demand high levels of effort? • Do students take initiative in improving the quality of their own work? • Do students ask questions to gain a further understanding of content?

10. Classroom EnvironmentManaging Student Behavior • Clear expectations for student conduct within the classroom and school. • Continual monitoring of student behavior • How the teacher responds to students’ behaviors

11. Are you effective at managing student behavior? • Do you acknowledge good behaviors? • Is students’ behavior in your classroom generally appropriate? • Are you frequently monitoring students behavior? • Is your response to behavior effective? • Are you able to monitor students’ behaviors without speaking?

12. Instruction At PS 53X we are trying to improve: Using questioning and Discussion, Engaging Students in Learning, and Using Assessment in Instruction

13. InstructionUsing Questioning and Discussion • Quality of questions and prompts, which cause students to think and reflect. • Discussion techniques that promotes learning. • Students actively participate in lessons and discussions.

14. Are you effective with discussion questioning in your classroom? • Do you students ask higher-order questions in discussions? • Do you ask open-ended questions? • Are many students actively engaged in discussions? • Do you call on all students, even if they do not volunteer? • Are you students able to discuss, without your mediation?

15. InstructionEngaging Students in Learning • Activities and assignments are aligned to the goal of the lesson. • Students are properly grouped for instruction. • Instructional materials and resources are selected for their impact on students learning. • Structure and pacing of the unit or lesson

16. Are you engaging your students? • Do your learning tasks have multiple correct responses? • Do students have some choice on how they complete their learning task? • Do the materials and resources support the learning goals or your students? • Do students have an opportunity to reflect on the lesson and consolidate their understanding? • Do your students suggest modification to learning tasks or resources, to meet their needs?

17. InstructionUsing Assessment • Clear assessment criteria • Monitoring of student learning • Feedback to students • Student self-assessment and monitoring

18. Are you using assessment in instruction? • Do your students clearly understand characteristics of high quality work? • Do your students assess their own work? • Does your feedback include specific and timely guidance for students? • Do you make adjustments to a lesson to enhance understanding of individual students? • Do students help establish the evaluation criteria?

19. As we continue the school year, will look more in depth in improving our planning andpreparation, classroom environment, and instruction