Facilitating Discussions with SEC Data Involving Instructional Practice

1. Facilitating Discussions with SEC Data Involving Instructional Practice Carolyn K. Eastman August 27, 2008 Madison, Wisconsin

2. Survey Menu

3. Purpose Examples: • To examine to what degree best practices are being implemented across the district ( formative assessment, brained based learning) • To investigate how well prepared our teachers feel to work with students of different abilities. • To examine if our mission statement is a “living” document or framed words.

4. Homework Four generalizations about homework from research on homework practices • Amount should increase as students progress from elementary to HS 2. Parental involvement should be minimal 3. The purpose of homework should be identified and articulated • Feedback should be provided on homework assignments -Hill and Flynn, Classroom Instruction that Works With English Language Learners

7. Small Group Work Cooperative Learning Groups- ELLs • More opportunities to speak than in whole class instruction • Group members must “negotiate meaning” as they speak so that others understand them. • Small groups are feedback rich • Small groups reduce student anxiety

9. Collegiality • Openly sharing failures and mistakes • Demonstrating respect for each other, and • Constructively analyzing and criticizing practices and procedures. • Authentic interactions that are not contrived -Fullan and Hargreaves(1996)

11. Pedagogical Knowledge “While subject-matter knowledge in itself might not be consistently associated with student achievement, pedagogical knowledge is.”- Marzano “The degree of pedagogical skill may interact with subject matter knowledge to bolster or reduce teacher performance- Darling-Hammond(2000)

13. Instructional Strategies • Setting objectives and providing feedback • Nonlinguistic representations • Cooperative learning • Summarizing/note taking • Homework and practice • Identifying similarities and differences • Reinforcing effort and providing recognition • Generating and Testing Hypotheses • Questions,cues, and advanced organizers - Marzano, R.J.(1999)

15. Enhancing Individual Student Motivation • Provide feedback on their knowledge gain • Provide students with tasks that are inherently engaging • Provide opportunities for students to work on long term projects of their own design - Marzano

17. Feedback • Timely feedback on specific knowledge and skills for specific students • Establish specific goals for individual students

18. What is your purpose? • To examine what access ELLs have to the content • To look at the practices used by classroom and ELL teachers

19. Preparation, Instruction, Review/Assessment

20. Looking at scales

21. Reflect • Consider your purpose in your state for being involved in the ELL consortium… • How do you see this information being useful to the teachers in your state?