FRAMEWORK FOR TEACHING (FFT) SUMMER INSTITUTE

CONVERSATIONS TO ENHANCE PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

DR. MICHAEL BROOKS

JUNE 18, 2012

AGENDA:

REVIEW THE PRIORITIES OF THE FFT CONVERSATIONS

USING THE FFT TO ASSESS 21ST CENTURY TEACHING AND LEARNING

HAVING COURAGEOUS/COLLABORATIVE CONVERSATIONS IMPROVING TEACHER CAPACITY

WATCH A CALIBRATING CONVERSATION

COLLABORATE WITH COLLEAGUES

FFT

SUMMER INSTI

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OUTCOMES

Understand how Instructional Conversations Promote Teachers

Capacity

Understand how the text, Implementing FfT in Enhancing

Professional Practice Action Tool is a resource for Administrators

Understand how to deliver data to teachers to improve

performance

PURPOSE OF INSTRUCTIONAL CONVERSATIONSWhat do you think is the purpose(s) of instructional

conversations?

Improve Teaching Quality - Improve Instruction

Increase Teacher Awareness of the Priorities of the FfT

Use Data from Evaluation to Guide Conversation

Promote Teacher Reflection that Results in Higher Quality

Instruction

FACILITATING PROFESSIONAL CONVERSATIONSIndividually, read “Enhancing Professional Practice A Framework for

Teaching” (pages 5 –6 “A Common Language for Professional Conversation”) from, Danielson, C. 2nd Edition (2007).

What insight do the two text provide relative to facilitating

instructional conversations with teachers?

DATA USE

What data is used for Conversation and how is it

collected?

How do you use the data for Conversations?

How is evidence free of inference? Why do you think it

needs to be free of inference?

ROLE PLAY

Watch an Effective Post Conference in Action

What was the principals behavior/strategy?

What was the teacher behavior?

THE FFT ACTION TOOL

INDIVIDUALLY

Refer to the FfT Action Tool Review Pages 377-390 of the Action Tool

Discuss with your colleagues How you can use these questions to help construct your role play

questions and answers. These questions will help teachers think about the priorities of the FfT (Cognitive Engagement & Constructivist Learning) and improve their practice?

Be Prepared to Share your Thoughts

CONSTRUCTING AN INSTRUCTIONAL CONVERSATIONS

Review the lesson plan and the completed DOP.

Each group develop questions to ask the teacher during the pre and post

Conference and the answers to improve professional practice (Use the

Action Tool Pg. 377-432 to assist in developing the questions).

Two members of the group act out the questions in role play.

During the role play, other group members will watch and provide feedback

to the group based on the prior role play.

Be prepared to share your feedback

DANIELSON VIDEO CLIP

Watch Video Clip of an effective Pre and Post Conference

Teacher Evaluation: Using the Danielson Framework

Module 5Topic A: Video Clip 3Topic D: Video Clips 2 & 3

Share one thing you learned from Charlotte in the video

EXIT TICKET

Write down an Aha moment related to something you learned today.

What are you already doing in your school that will validate what you learned today?

How are you going to make changes to your professional conversations based on learning today?

Share a Tip that you use to save time in scheduling and conducting your pre and post conferences.