Research instructional strategies

Part A

You first need to research instructional strategies and find strategies that will work on your campus with your students. To receive credit, you will need to submit 5 detailed instructional strategies and 5 corresponding checklists for each strategy that can be used to monitor progress during observations. You can use strategies and checklist that were created by someone else however be sure to give credit to the creator using APA citations

Part B

Describe briefly how you will use your Instructional strategies during the evaluation and coaching process on your campus. Use APA citations when needed. Double spacing is not necessary

Part C

You have been asked by your superintendent to create a plan for instructional coaching on your campus. In the space below type in paragraph form how you would develop an instructional coaching program on your future campus. Be sure include research on teacher professional learning, cultivating growth in instructional practice, best practices in instruction, use of distributed leadership, and monitoring the systems effectively. In your instructional coaching plan include at least 3 references to key best practices that you learned in this week’s readings and/or the video. Double spacing is not necessary. Paste or type your instructional coaching plan in the space below.

Components to include in you Instructional Coaching Program:

· Observation and Feedback

· Model Ethical Behavior

· Coaching and Professional Growth and Development

· Collaborative culture

· Distributed Leadership

· Cultural responsiveness

· Digital Literacy

· Reflective Practice

· Monitoring System(s)

· Supervision, Support, and Modeling

· Best Practices

· Summary of the findings of the peer review

· Any other items you feel are necessary

 

Place your Instructional Coaching Program written description below.

 

 

Part D

Directions: For this part of the assignment, you are asked to complete an instructional coaching plan for our case study teacher. In the case study information this week you will find an evidence sheet that you will need to score using the TTESS Rubric. You will also see other data points about the case study teacher. After reviewing all the case study information, scoring the evaluation evidence sheet, and pinpointing an area in which to work with this teacher to improve her instructional practice. You will research best practices on ways to improve instruction in the pinpointed area in order to create a solid instructional coaching plan.

 

Struggling Teacher Case Study Data

Below is some data collected and placed in the file of the struggling teacher along with the teacher’s latest evaluation notes.

 

 

Ms. Cardinal’s Classroom Demographics

Hispanic	71%
White	15%
African American	5%
Economically Disadvantaged	90%
English-Language Learners	32%
Special Education	11%

 

Additional information on Ms. Cardinal

2nd year as a teacher

The teacher has struggled with classroom management.

The students in the class have the highest-grade averages but the lowest scores on the district’s benchmarks.

There are 23 students- 4 ESL and 3 Special education students.

 

Evidence Notes from walk-throughs this month

Instructional groups are arranged in all boys or all girls…. all of the same ability level

All students are aware of their role within the group…note taker, timer, materials, leader.

The teacher showed two videos that did not align with the objective of the day.

Each group was given an iPad. Only 2 of the 5 groups used the iPad.

Materials were not readily accessible for students.

Two of the six activities in the lesson aligned with objective. Ex. Worksheet on Parts of a Seed…Obj. was to learn about the parts of an animal cell…no reference to prior learning on a seed. Two videos…One on cell division and the other about the animal kingdom.

Questioning was mostly in knowledge and comprehension.

Ex. What is this part? Look at the example to give you a clue. After 3 students 1 was able to answer. What is a cell? Called on 4 students…Teacher finally answered. How are animal cells different from plant cells? In your group create a poster that matches this model of an animal cell. Do animals have cells? Can you give me an example of an animal cell? No student called on was able to answer. The teacher closed the lesson without an answer.

The teacher directed most of the activities and the students waited for her to tell them every step of the activity before completing it.

Walkthroughs indicate the following areas of concern:

Lack of wait time

Lower level questioning

Calling on the same student

A teacher driven classroom

Classroom management issues

Lack of differentiated instruction

Lack of details in lesson plans

 

Please Complete your Coaching Plan using the template below:

Instructional Coaching Plan

Date of the Conference: Teacher:

Targeted Coaching Topic:

Reflection Questions (at least 3 questions):

Evidence from the Observation(s):

Identify the targeted goal: (SMART GOAL)

 

Research to support the need to improve this area:

Suggested strategies and skills:

Model/Explain/Exemplar:

Evidence- How will we know it worked or was effective?

Timeline:

Support/Resources: Place your links to your researched articles in this section.