Saturday, December 7, 2013

Learner-Centered Professional Development Session


Session Purpose: Identify weak areas in math through disaggregation of data and discuss approaches to improve in those areas.

Learning Objective to Be Addressed: Improve Weak Math Areas
Approving Principal: M Reynolds
Presentation Date: Jan 6, 2014
Grade Level:
2nd & 3rd
Facilitator:
K Grimsley
Location:
GES
Start Time:
9:00
End-Time:
10:00

Learner-Centered Activity
Purpose
Description
Steps
Estimated Time
Review most recent benchmark data (broken down by teacher) and list the 3 lowest and the 3 highest areas.
Teachers are looking at their own data and finding their strong and weak areas.
Each teacher will bring his or her print out from Aware (our data tool). They will look at individual TEKs and list their 3 strongest and their 3 weakest TEKs.
Print benchmark data

List 3 strongest and 3 weakest areas
10-15 minutes
As a grade level, compare and compile your strongest and weakest TEKs.
Teachers can see where they are similar and different regarding their strengths and weaknesses.
As a group, the teachers will take turns sharing their findings. They will compile a list to share with the other grade level.
Come together

Take turns sharing findings

Compile a list
15 minutes
The whole group, lead by the facilitator, will review findings and share strategies for improving these areas.
Teachers will gain knowledge from each other regarding new techniques or strategies to use when teaching specific TEKs.
As a group, we will look at weak areas, chances are, someone was strong in that area. We will share out strategies and techniques to try.
Look at the first weak area.

Ask if anyone had this as a strength.

Share out strategies and techniques.

Teachers take notes.

Repeat for each weak area.
30 minutes

3 comments:

  1. l like your collaboration and looking at strengths and weaknesses so that teachers can support each other. I am also training in the area of math. Many teachers are very afraid of teaching math. I am wondering about your time Did I read somewhere the training was supposed to be only 45 minutes long? I hope it can be an hour, because I tried to squeeze way too much in 45 minutes.

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  2. Yes, I think it is only supposed to be 45 minutes, I may try to shorten my times, but I want them to have long enough to think and for it to be beneficial. Maybe just do strengths or weaknesses instead of both?

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    1. I like both discussing both... Mine is 45 minutes on paper, but realistically would probably take longer. Maybe your could only allow 10 minute for the teachers to collaborate and cut the last part to 20 minutes.

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