1 / 19

Classroom Walk- Throughs

Classroom Walk- Throughs. Tony McCoy- Elmwood HS EDL 560 Spring 2010. Reflection Activity. How often does your principal walk into your classroom? When was the last time he/she came into your classroom? And what was the purpose of the visit?

lynton
Download Presentation

Classroom Walk- Throughs

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Classroom Walk-Throughs Tony McCoy- Elmwood HS EDL 560 Spring 2010

  2. Reflection Activity • How often does your principal walk into your classroom? • When was the last time he/she came into your classroom? And what was the purpose of the visit? • How long does he/she stay in the classroom on these walk-throughs? • How frequently does your principal provide follow-up? • What is this follow-up like? • Record and share

  3. Walk-Through Definition Walk-throughs are a technique used by principals… • Observe student work in the classroom environment … • In a non-threatening way… • Using a focus question as a guide… • This process provides data for reflection… • Dialogue between the principal and teacher… • And decision-making that improves student learning. Walk-throughs are: • Non-evaluative… • The basis for questions, observations, and professional dialogue… • They link the philosophical beliefs that the school has embraced … http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/readit/readit019.shtml

  4. Types of Walk-Throughs • Data Walks • Learning Walks • Peer Coaching • Principal Professional Learning Walks • Quick Visits • Focused Walk-Through • Downey 3-Minute Classroom Walk-Through http://www.lease-sped.org/resources/walk%20throughs.pdf

  5. What is the Downey Walk-Through ? 1- Short, Focused Informal Observation Time to Gather Information Teacher makes over 1,000 decisions a day 2-3 minute walk-through may observe 5-10 decisions Goal on professional growth and not evaluation 2- Possible Area for Reflection 3- Curriculum/Instructional Focus Gather data about curriculum and instructional decisions

  6. What is the Downey Walk-Through ? 4- Follow-up Occasionally NOT After Every Visit May wait 8-10 visits before reflective dialogue Do NOT leave notes… one way communication 5- Informal and Collaborative Colleagues working to help each other think about practice • Still will need formal observations • May want to spend more time with novice teacher • Documentation/Judgments of marginal teacher • Classroom data collecting observation • Evaluation of group staff development needs

  7. Reflection Activity • Why Should Walk-Throughs Be a High Priority in Your Work? • Record and share

  8. Reasons… • Validity to teacher’s actions • Lower teacher apprehension making formal observations more effective • More you observe the more you learn • Identify areas of group staff development • Observe how effective staff development are being implemented/impacting teaching • Better informed for when parents call about a concern • Identification of marginal teachers • Keep perspective about your work

  9. MBWA Research Results(Management By Wandering Around) 1. Enhanced teacher satisfaction as defined by higher frequency of “flow” experiences 2. Improved teacher self-efficacy 3. Improved teacher attitudes toward professional development 4. Improved teacher attitudes toward teacher appraisal 5. Increased perceived teacher efficacy of other teachers The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through by C.Downey (2004)

  10. MBWA Research Results(Management By Wandering Around) 6. Improved classroom instruction 7. Improved teacher perception of principal effectiveness 8. Improved student discipline and student acceptance of advice and criticism 9. Improved teacher-perceived effectiveness of the school 10. Increases student learning across socioeconomic and cultural lines The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through by C.Downey (2004)

  11. What do you do when you conduct walk-throughs in the classrooms? • What do you pay attention to first? • What do you do… walk around… look at student work… talk with students or the teacher? • What do you observe? • What do you do with the data you collected?

  12. Five-Step Walk-Through Observation Structure 1- Student Orientation to the Work 2- Curricular Decision Points 3- Instructional Decision Points 4- “Walk-the-Walls” 5- Safety and Health Issues The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through by C.Downey (2004)

  13. Five-Step Walk-Through Observation Structure 1- Student Orientation to the Work Are students engaged? Attending behavior is a prerequisite to learning. 2- Curricular Decision Points Determine the content of the student learning 3 Cs- Content, Context, and Cognitive Type 3- Instructional Decision Points Questioning skill, grouping strategies, informal assessment 4- “Walk-the-Walls” What has been taught/Will be taught in future “Wall of Humiliation” 5- Safety and Health Issues

  14. Model for Framing a Reflective Question The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through by C.Downey (2004) PRINCIPAL’S REFLECTIVE QUESTION EXPANDS TEACHER’S FRAME OF REFERENCE COMFORT ZONE

  15. From EducationWorld.com A three-minute classroom visit does not sound like a lot of time to assess curriculum, a teacher’s pacing, and students’ impressions of their lessons. But string those three-minute snapshots together over a whole year, some administrators maintain, and you get a bigger, clearer picture of what is going on in classrooms. http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin480.shtml

  16. Review… • … Take the time to interact with staff about their practices…. • …Collaborative, reflective dialogue… • …. Not until we are impacting what is happening in the classroom that we will see HIGHER STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT… The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through by C.Downey (2004)

  17. Works Cited: • The Three –Minute Classroom Walk-Through; Changing School Supervisory Practice One Teacher at a Time by Carolyn J. Downey (2004) • http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin480.shtml • http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/readit/readit019.shtml • http://www.lease-sped.org/resources/walk%20throughs.pdf • http://www.naesp.org/resources/2/Principal/2009/M-A_p30.pdf • http://www.principalspartnership.com/walkthroughs.pdf • http://www.centerforcsri.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=424&Itemid=5

  18. Classroom Walk-Throughs Tony McCoy- Elmwood HS EDL 560 Spring 2010

More Related