2a. Focus on Learning and Teaching, Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment: The school executive leads the discussion about standards for curriculum, instruction and assessment based on research and best practices in order to establish and achieve high expectations for students.
Exhibit 2a. During my principal residency, I conducted classroom visits on a daily basis. This observation form is completed and a copy of it is left with the teacher for feedback and debriefing if necessary.
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Exhibit 2b. Below is a follow-up email from a drop-in classroom visit. Suggestions were given to the teacher to help improve instruction in the classroom as well as address classroom management.
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Element 2b. Focus on Instructional Time: The school executive creates processes and schedules which protect teachers from disruption of instructional or preparation time.
Exhibit 2c. Master schedule shows that grade levels have the same common planning time to ensure teachers collaborate and plan together.
Exhibit 2c. Master schedule shows that grade levels have the same common planning time to ensure teachers collaborate and plan together.
Artifacts
- Email addressing instruction issues
- Teacher Master Schedule
- Drop-in Observation Document
- TWC Survey Time
- Developmental Projects
- Flipped Classroom
- Understanding By Design
- NCDPI: Are We Asking the Right Questions
- EVAAS & Indistar
- Effective Teaching Framework
- On Common Ground: The Power of Professional Learning Communities (DuFour)
- Reframing Organizations (Bolman & Deal)
- Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4 - 14 (Woods)
- Teach Like a Champion (Lemov)
- Classroom Instruction That Works (Marzano)