Please
review the handout provided this week and be prepared to share your connections
with table partners. Feel free to annotate your thinking, using the white
space on the handout. Special thanks to our leadership team and department chairs for guiding this
part of our school’s professional development.
Instructional rounds are an
important part of our Building Improvement Goals (1.8 and 2.7). It’s helpful
to remember the big idea behind this practice. “The idea behind instructional rounds is that everyone involved is
working on their practice, everyone is obligated to be knowledgeable about
the common task of instructional improvement, and everyone’s practice should
be subject to scrutiny, critique, and improvement” (City, et. al, pg. 4).
This thinking about our work goes hand-in-hand with Hattie’s assumptions
about reflecting on our impact:
“My role, as teacher, is to evaluate
the effect I have on my students.’ It is to ‘know thy impact’, it is to
understand this impact, and it is to act on this knowledge and understanding”
(Hattie, pg. 19). I look forward to our discussion and your insights next
week as we take our next step as a learning community.
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City,
E., Elmore, R., Fiarman, S., & Teitel, L. (2009). Instructional rounds in
education: A network approach to improving teaching and learning. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard Education Publishing Group.
Hattie, J. (2012). Visible learning for teachers: Maximizing impact on
learning. New York, NY: Routledge.
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