What do we talk about?
First question to consider when meeting in your PLT
What is "what do we want students to be to do?"
Professional Learning Teams is often refrred to as this.
What are PLTs?
Teachers use this type of information to make instructional decisions about students
What are formative assessments?
Nightly practice that does not have much impact on student acheivement according to Hattieʻs research
What is homework?
Agreements about how to work together such as come prepared to the meeting.
What are norms?
Response when one learns that 10 of my 20 students failed their math quiz
What is
"How will we respond when they don’t learn?"
What is a CFA (Common Formative Assessment)?
The goal for Kohala Middle School students to make growth.
What is 100% or All means All?
Students take turns leading a dialogue in small groups using four strategies: summarizing, questioning, clarifying, and predicting.
What is "reciprocal teaching?"
Two words represent what PLC teams should focus on instead of focusing solely on what they are teaching.
What is student Leanring?
Process for choosing the most important ideas to teach
What is "Choosing Priority Standards?"
End of the year assessment Hawaii uses in Reading and Math
What is SBAC?
Teachers need these two things to go together. It is giving the kids a sense of what is the purpose/goal of what we are learning and what it means to be successful.
What are learning targets and success criteria?
A well-run PLC meeting always requires a structured outline so that members know exactly what will be covered and time limits are respected.
What is an agenda?
Developing a common formative assessment or using an interim assessment is what part of the 4 questions
What is
"How will we know when they have learned it?"
Science test that 8th graders take and what it is based on
Teacher tells the students specifically what they did well on an assignment not just "good job" or "you are so smart."
What is effective feedback?
Unlike venting sessions, effective PLCs are grounded in this type of ongoing, collective inquiry.
What is Action Research?
It directly boosts student achievement, reduces educator isolation, and helps turn individual best practices into schoolwide success.
What is teacher collaboration?
A framework for providing students what they need to succeed academically or behaviorally
What is MTSS (Multi-tiered systems of support)?
Teachers working together who believe that they can make a difference for students
What is Collective Teacher Efficacy?
Process where teacher shares the lesson they taught, others review the student work and ask reflective questions?
What is Critical Friends?