Purpose and Intent Purpose and Intent

1. Purpose and IntentPurpose and Intent Mrs. Monica Holmes Dr. Michael Brooks OFFICE OF TALENT DEVELOPMENT- FFT SUMMER INSTITUTE

2. The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate “apparently ordinary” people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners; it is in making winners of ordinary people. OFFICE OF TALENT DEVELOPMENT- FFT SUMMER INSTITUTE

3. Gain an understanding of: • The purpose of FfT • How Schools understand Danielson's FfT • How Schools have implemented FfT • How all systemic initiatives connect to FfT • How OTD can provide additional support to schools Outcomes OFFICE OF TALENT DEVELOPMENT- FFT SUMMER INSTITUTE

4. What does FfT Look Like in Your Building? School-Based Implementation of FFt OFFICE OF TALENT DEVELOPMENT- FFT SUMMER INSTITUTE

5. The Framework for Teaching is a researched based set of components of instruction, grounded in a constructivist view of learning and teaching. The Framework may be used as a foundation of a school or district’s mentoring, coaching, professional development, and teacher evaluation process, thus linking all those activities together and helping teachers become more thoughtful practitioners. The Framework for Teaching OFFICE OF TALENT DEVELOPMENT- FFT SUMMER INSTITUTE

6. Builds teacher capacity • Enhance Professional Growth • Foundation for mentoring, coaching and PD • Builds Instructional Leadership Capacity • Helps promote professional conversations • Helps promote teacher reflection In a nutshell….. OFFICE OF TALENT DEVELOPMENT- FFT SUMMER INSTITUTE

7. I Gotcha • Not an evaluation tool • Not sole data point to teacher evaluation • Not a personal assessment What FfT is Not… OFFICE OF TALENT DEVELOPMENT- FFT SUMMER INSTITUTE

8. “After 30 years of doing such work, I have concluded that classroom teaching… is perhaps the most complex, most challenging, and most demanding, subtle, nuanced, and frightening activity that our species has ever invented.... The only time a physician could possibly encounter a situation of comparable complexity would be in the emergency room of a hospital during or after a natural disaster” Lee Shulman, The Wisdom of Practice, 2004 The Complexity of Teaching OFFICE OF TALENT DEVELOPMENT- FFT SUMMER INSTITUTE

9. Jigsaw Activity • IFL • WEBB • Common Core • NBCT • FfT Making the Connection OFFICE OF TALENT DEVELOPMENT- FFT SUMMER INSTITUTE

10. Making the connection OFFICE OF TALENT DEVELOPMENT- FFT SUMMER INSTITUTE

11. Share out OFFICE OF TALENT DEVELOPMENT- FFT SUMMER INSTITUTE

12. Making the connection OFFICE OF TALENT DEVELOPMENT- FFT SUMMER INSTITUTE

13. What are the steps needed to move FFT forward in a consistent and reliable way? • How can OTD assist you in full implementation of FfT? Next steps OFFICE OF TALENT DEVELOPMENT- FFT SUMMER INSTITUTE

14. "Learning is finding out what you already know.  Doing is demonstrating that you know it.  Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you.  You are all learners, doers, teachers” Richard Bach QUOTE OFFICE OF TALENT DEVELOPMENT- FFT SUMMER INSTITUTE