Transcript Professional Learning Communities: Continuing to Grow

Professional Learning
Communities: Continuing to
Grow
MSTP Facilitator’s Training
January 22, 2010
Linda Harvieux
Agenda
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Warm Up
Reflection- Logistics, Process,
Content
Facilitation – Forming, Storming,
Norming, Performing, Transforming
The Agenda-Questioning Structure
Looking at Data, Student Work and
Other Formative Assessment
Write a New Year’s
Resolution for your
PLC work:
*What do you hope
for your team?
*What might you
do different?
Discuss with your
table: How will that
make a difference
to my PLC?
Reflection
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Individually record your reflections
on logistics, process, and content
As a team record your celebrations
on the top half of a piece of chart
tablet and concerns/questions on the
bottom half
Share with a table near you
Forming, Storming, Norming,
Performing, Transforming
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*Jigsaw: Read through the stages of a
learning community
Describe the stage: On chart tablet make
a graphic symbol representing the stages
with the description inside
Highlight key characteristics
How might this awareness, help a PLC
team move forward?
*Jigsaw reading is a great strategy when you want your team to
do some reading and you want to save time and encourage
participation
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“Life is like playing a violin solo in
public and learning the instrument as
one goes on.”
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Samuel Butler
Case Studies
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Divide your paper into four
quadrants:
• One: Describe your team’s study
• Two: Tell about your team’s structure
• Three: What is the most productive
work your team has done?
• Four: What have you learned, what
questions do you have for the group?
Digging Deeper into Data
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Many of the most important results
may not be quantifiable, but that
doesn’t mean they are unknowable.
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Peter Senge (1994)
Looking at Data
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Read the article, “Looking Deeper
Into the Data”
• Circle all the types of data
• Underline the four tips for looking at
data
• How do you use the student’s “story” as
data?
Why use data cards?
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Provides guiding questions to
transform data information into
instructional decisions
Answers the questions, “How do you
know? What are you doing with what
you know?
Provides a safe structure to share
instructional practice
Data Review Card:
Planning Before the Lesson
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After reviewing the data, ask:
What knowledge to we need to gather before
beginning instruction? What do we need to know
about the content? What do we need to know
about students?
What strategies do we need to implement to help
our students succeed?
How will we know if the strategies are working
toward student success? What baseline,
formative and summative data will we collect?
Data Review Card:
During the Lesson
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After reviewing the data, ask:
What strategies have we used that are working
well (share classroom success stories)?
What evidence shows they are working (i.e.
classwork, quizzes, baseline, summative data)?
What students aren’t getting it?
What interventions strategies will we try and
what evidence will we collect?
Protocol For Looking at Student
Work
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Follow this process:
Presentation of student work: One group member presents
student work, assessments, class work, observations, interview
discussion, while other team members listen
Clarifying questions: Participants ask the presenting teacher
questions. What strategies did you use? How did the group do as
a whole? Did particular parts of the lesson present a problem?
Participants look at the work, noting teacher strategies, student
strengths and look for “wows and wonders”
Wows: It is exciting to see..., The students really seem to.....,The
obvious strengths are.....
Wonders: I wonder why.... I wonder what would happen if....
What could we try......
Reflection: Discuss feedback and plan reteaching or intervention
strategies
Data Review Card:
After Summative Assessment
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After reviewing the data, ask:
Clarify: What was the desired outcome (content
standards?)
What is our current success rate (team
summative data?)
To what degree are we meeting goals?
What factors contributed to that rate of success
(what factors can we control?)
Where do we need to improve and how will we
improve that rate (reteaching, interventions?)
Your Dream PLC Log
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What information/sentence headings
would it include?
How would it be laid out?
What would you record on the log?
Reflection: How would it influence
your current and future practice?
Brains
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G
uMZ73mT5zM
Action Plan
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With a partner, answer these
questions:
• How will I revise my agenda?
• Plan your agenda for the next four
weeks
• What other data will we look at?
• How will I use the new ideas to lead my
PLC group?
• Are there other next steps we are ready
to make?
Resources
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www.allthingsplc.com
www.all4ed/about_the_crisis/schools/map
www.ascd.org
www.dilbert.com
www.echospace.org
www.leadandlearn.com
www.marzanoandassociates.com
www.michaelfullan.ca
www.renewalcoaching.com
www.wallacefoundation.org/elan