Spring Program Mentor Collaboration

April 8, 2014

Welcome to the Spring Program Mentor Collaboration       Everyone’s on mute. To make this more interesting and interactive, there are activities for participation. Let’s learn from each other.

Lillian will be the Moderator If you have a question or response, raise your hand and Lillian will unmute you Or you can use the chat box. Please make sure you are chatting with everyone (GoTo Meeting only) Purpose of today’s collaboration: Mentors will learn a variety of questioning techniques to use with their candidates

Agenda  Welcome  Check in  Review Purpose of Feedback  Using Questioning  Communication  Wrap up  Roundtable

Check in  Type in the chat box what kind of car best describes your relationship with your candidate/s?

Review Purpose of Feedback  Information about how we are doing  Helps the mentee have some ideas about how to improve  Helps them reflect

Helpful feedback is:        Goal referenced- action was taken to achieve a goal Tangible- results related to the goal Actionable- concrete, specific and useful not a value

judgment

User-friendly- What’s one thing that if changed would

yield improvement

Timely- the sooner the better Ongoing Consistent- stable, accurate, trustworthy

One of the ways we give feedback is by questioning      Think and plan out your questions in advance Phrase your questions carefully based on your purpose or goal Asking strategic well designed questions will lead the teacher to questions of their own Questions before a classroom visit can help clarify goals for student learning, explore teaching strategies, identify a focus for data collection Questions post classroom visit can help reflect, deepen thinking, examine evidence, apply learnings

What are some questions you use before a classroom observation?

 Go ahead and type them in the chat box

Sample pre observation questions  What information/data did you use to design this lesson?

 How did you choose these strategies?

 What challenges are you anticipating?

 How are you going to check for understanding?

 How will you know if your lesson objective(s) was/were achieved?

 What is something specific you would like feedback on?

When you ask your mentee how the lesson went, what is their response?

 Type it in the chat box

How do you take their response a step further with a follow up question?

 Type a follow up question you could ask to one of the questions posted

Sample post observation questions         How do you think the lesson went?

In what ways did the students meet or not meet your learning goals?

How do you know?

What do you notice in the observation data (mentor notes)?

How might you follow this lesson?

What is something you want to do differently for next time?

What area would you like to work on for next time?

How can I support you with that?

Afterwards  Don’t forget to follow up on anything you said you were going to provide for them  It could initiate your next contact  Your use of questioning is modeling for them how they can use questioning with their students and move their questioning from lower level to higher level revised Bloom’s/BKC  Questions?

Communication  Successful practices from your colleagues  Jane Levin  Joel Silva

Have you tried…..

 Skype or Face Time meetings?

 Join.me https://join.me/ It’s free  Different environment? Starbucks, Panera, Fro Yo  Walk n Talk  Small goals to have something to talk about for next time  Meet in a group/pairs/triads depending on your purpose

Communication Mirages  Texting  Emailing

Think and respond (type in a response and raise your hand to share)  Type an example of how you will implement questioning differently  What’s something you will do to tune up your relationship with your candidate/s

Roundtable  Please complete the short Survey Monkey evaluation that will be emailed to you  I can also email you a list of Question Starters for teachers to use with their students, if you are interested

Thank you for your time!

Have a great evening!

Contact information: Suzanne Miyasaki [email protected]

858.571.7243

Lillian Harvey [email protected]

858.292.3825