Leader Leverage
The attitudes and behaviors developed by each team to guide them in working together
Norms/Collective Committments
1st grade teachers are creating an exit ticket for their upcoming ficiton unit. They are addressing which critical question.
How will we know when they learned it?
These are the people that do the work but also the process by which its done.
PLC
A focus on student learning, a collaborative culture, and a focus on results are the 3 Big Ideas of this process.
PLC Process
A group of 6th grade math teachers review TEK 6.4 and develop their learning intention. They are addressing ths question.
An assessment OF learning designed to provide a final measurement that determines if learning goals have been met.
Summative Assessment
A group is transformed to this when the educators work together interdepedently to achieve a common goal for which they are mutually accountable.
Team
Fourth grade reading teachers have arranged for students who mastered the reading benchmark to work with the technology specialist to do a robotics project during WIN time. Students have specific tasks to complete and must write a quick guide based on their discoveries and successes.
How do we enrich those students who learned it?
An assessment FOR learning used to advance and not merely to monitor each student’s learning. Checking for understanding is one example.
Formative Assessment
In a PLC, collaboration focuses on this quad of very important inquiries of learning.
4 Critical Questions
What do we want students to learn?
How will we know they learned it?
What do we do if they don't?
What do we do when they do?
As teachers change intervention groups, they are addressing this critical question.
What do we do for students learn the skill?
What do we do for students who don't?
HAn assessment that is collaboratively created by a team of teachers responsible for the same grade level and content and used to determine how well students are progressing, how well teaching strategies are working, and identify any curriculum concerns.
Common Assessment