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Site Mentor hot topics: Instructional Supervision

Site Mentor hot topics: Instructional Supervision. Expected Outcome: Examine strategies to conference with new teachers. What conferences do and do not include Preparing for the conference Conference ingredients Questions that do and don’t work Classroom decisions and the TPEs

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Site Mentor hot topics: Instructional Supervision

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  1. Site Mentor hot topics:Instructional Supervision

  2. Expected Outcome: Examine strategies to conference with new teachers • What conferences do and do not include • Preparing for the conference • Conference ingredients • Questions that do and don’t work • Classroom decisions and the TPEs • Giving Suggestions • Extending Strategies • Summary

  3. What a conference is (and isn’t) Is Isn’t • A focus on cause and effect • Looking for what is working and how to build on it. • Reflection: seeing a lesson through other eyes • Judgment • Evaluation

  4. Preparing for the conference • Ask what each student is expected to demonstrate IN THE LESSON (not on the theme / chapter test. • Ask what questions you can help answer after the observation. • Encourage the candidate to tie preparation to the Teaching Performance Expectations.

  5. Conference Ingredients Focus Question: Right now, what is the job of every learner? The goal is perpetual student engagement (TPE 5) • Provide specific feedback regarding the cause and effect examples you observed (what did the teacher do and what was the resulting student productivity?) • Answer questions generated in the pre-conference. • Present one extension idea / discuss alternatives. • Ask for commitment to try the new idea.

  6. Questions that DO and DON’T work What Works What Doesn’t • What happened in the lesson that you HOPED would happen? • What happened that you didn’t expect? • Who learned and how do you know? • How did you feel about the lesson? • You should have… • If I had been teaching the lesson, I would… • It would have been better if you had…

  7. Classroom Decisions and the TPEs • What was the expected student outcome? Why? • How did every student check for understanding? Why? • What adaptations were made for language learners? Why? • What accommodations were included for children with special learning needs? Why? • Where were performance assessments included throughout the lesson? Why?

  8. Strategies to increase involvement (TPE 5) When giving suggestions, refer to student action: • “When you called Rosa’s name before asking a question, everyone else was off the hook. How can everyone be accountable?” • “Tell your partner three uses of a comma…” • “Use your number fan to show where the decimal goes…” • “When you previewed the lesson for your learners with special needs, you made content accessible to every student (TPE 4).”

  9. No judgment is challenging! Why we stay away from judgment: _it doesn’t teach new strategy. _it gives the receiver the sense of what went wrong. _it increases defensiveness. _it stops thinking.

  10. Summary – Bringing it together Cause and Effect Extension and Reflection • Think of volleyball: the teacher initiates the activity and hands the ball to the students to practice. • Right now, what is the job of the learner? • Instructional supervision is built on what is already working. • What can be added to a lesson to make it most effective for every learner?

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