After Steve Dunn returned to provide staff development around Writers' Workshop and the nonfiction reading strategies of summarizing and paraphrasing. There were a few high impact strategies I wanted to focus on when giving feedback in quick visits during the upcoming months.
1) The continued use of clear learning targets for mini-lessons that students interact with.
2) Frequent use of pair shares to allow teachers to assess students' thinking and increase engagement. There are three levels of pair share experiences.
- Level One: one word answer or thumbs up/thumbs down
- Level Two: a complete sentence answer
- Level Three: an explain your thinking/defend your answer (think why or how cues)
3) The use of the gradual release process without skipping the guided practice phase. The following link has a nice visual to remember all four steps. Gradual Release of Responsibility This visual uses the language demonstration instead of think aloud and shared practice in place of think together.
These are all high impact strategies as a staff we've implemented, but we can continue to get better at our utilization of these strategies. Feel free to let me know which of these strategies you'd like the most feedback on.
This Thursday our Day 6 collaboration will be focused on progress monitoring and making decisions on what students need Tier II reading or math interventions.
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