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Discussing Instruction with Your Teachers: A How To

Discussing Instruction with Your Teachers: A How To. Dr. Richard Machesky Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Instruction Troy Schools. Learning Objectives. The audience will identify an important component regarding instruction in their building.

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Discussing Instruction with Your Teachers: A How To

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  1. Discussing Instruction with Your Teachers: A How To Dr. Richard Machesky Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Instruction Troy Schools

  2. Learning Objectives • The audience will identify an important component regarding instruction in their building. • The audience will be introduced to instructional rounds and be given several items for further consideration.

  3. Who owns instruction in your school?

  4. Current Reality • How is time spent in conversation with your teachers?

  5. Problem or Opportunity

  6. Problem or Opportunity? • How do we create a system of practice that allows for: • Ownership of instruction • Open, honest and impactful dialogue between professionals • Cost effective – “Job embedded PD” • Help manage new legislative requirements • Most importantly – Improve instruction for the students we serve

  7. Discussing Instruction with Teachers • Instructional Rounds • Everyone has a responsibility to work on improving their own practice as well as the school/district wide responsibility to the improvement of instruction. Everyone’s practice should be subject to scrutiny, critique and improvement.

  8. Current practice among secondary instructional leaders in TSD • On our journey we started with one important question? • How do you know what exceptional instruction looks like when you see it? • To answer this question we dedicated our professional learning to the process of instructional rounds.

  9. How do you know what exceptional instruction looks like when you see it? • Professional learning • 90 minutes per meeting • Book study • Article • Video examples • 90 Minutes per month is dedicated to Instructional Rounds

  10. Is your job getting easier?

  11. Instructional Rounds • Teams of 3-4 individuals that visit three to four classrooms for 10-15 minutes at a time and gather information to discuss during a debrief • Debrief takes place immediately following the classroom visits. Usually does not include the teachers that were observed • Visits and debriefs can take on many variations – but key - conversations remain non-judgmental. • What works for you and your situation

  12. Instructional Rounds • Make it easy! • Ask your colleagues the important question: How do you know what exceptional instruction looks like when you see it? • Walk the talk • Be willing to see the process through!

  13. References • Instructional Rounds in Education: A Network Approach to Improving Teaching and Learning (2009). City, Elizabeth A., Elmore, Richard F., Fiarman, Sarah E. and Teitel, Lee. • Email for PDF articles to be used with colleagues and staff • rmachesky2@troy.k12.mi.us

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