Archive for the ‘Walkthroughs’ Category
Monday, March 11th, 2013
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Over the past month we have conducted weekly walkthroughs to gather data on elements of our school culture.
Prior to conducting a walkthrough we asked staff what they thought the protocols surrounding walkthrough should be. To build and keep up trust we have followed these staff listed protocols. These protocols ...
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Thursday, December 9th, 2010
A little clip that might help inform a conversation about walkthroughs at your school.
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Sunday, May 30th, 2010
Just a short clip on the use of protocols when observing instruction. here Marzano talks about the use of his protocol and not to be confused with other techniques. It's a timely reminder as we here in Victoria embarked on the use of Instructional Rounds.
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Have a quick flick through this presentation as we in Australia shut down for the summer school holiday period. I'm reminded of a now famous quote "Yes we can" when I see this. I remember as far back as the spirit duplicator - what about you?
The presentation comes from Alan ...
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Near the end of February my Assistant Principal and I went on a series of learning walks or walkthroughs with a focus on classroom rules and norms of working. We spent a short time in each classroom listening to students and teachers talking, we looked around the room for anchor charts teachers ...
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
At most weekly leadership meetings we agenda a discussion on a published research paper distributed and read prior to meeting and this week it was the 90/90/90 Schools: A Case Study article. The article written by two journalists was based on research of some schools in lower socio-economic communities in America that are ...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Readers of my blog will know that we have Michaal Ymer, an educator with a focus on maths, coaching teachers in classrooms. Michael early on in his work with us presented three main messages:
students need maths materials to manipulate so that they get a better understanding of concepts - less abstract.
maths ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
At this weeks staff meeting Sarah, the assistant principal and I talked about the weeks walkthroughs posing some questions in particular the above question - is consistency between classrooms sameness or mindfulness? We used a fish bowl strategy to share our thoughts where Sarah and I have a partly scripted dialogue surrounded by the staff. I used an ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Last Friday I was in a lift listening to the chanting of the latest hip hop song by a group of youths. One had just downloaded the song and was telling his friends that it a nerve ... I think? Translate - I think it was a great song.
I was at Victoria ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
At this weeks district Principal's meeting we heard a report from one of DEECD's appointed teacher coaches working in our local public schools. She spoke about frustrations over the system's need for accountability data verses the need to just do it with people and I understand both view points. Her report ...
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