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WELCOME
Teach for America’s Approach to Problem Solving in the Classroom: Teacher Reflection to Increase
Effectiveness
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Objectives & Agenda
At the end of this workshop, you will:
• Have a deeper understanding of how Teach For America approaches problem-solving in the classroom.
• Leave with strategies you can implement in your own practice.
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Agenda
1. Welcome
2. Academic Impact Model
3. Outcomes, Causes, Solutions
4. OCS Reflections
5. Closing
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Where we are going...
AIM
Co-Inves
t
Destination:
Student Achieveme
nt
OCS
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Academic Impact Model
Student results
Student understandings and behaviors
Teacher actions
Teacher knowledge, skills and mindsets
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What it Looks Like in Practice
The Academic Impact ModelComponent Description
Student Academic Results
This is the ultimate outcomes, and it’s impacted by all the things below.
Student Understandings and Behaviors
What students know and understand, as well as their behaviors, will impact their achievement in the classroom.
Teacher Actions
What a teacher actually does in the classroom, will impact student understanding or behaviors.
Teacher Knowledge, Skills, and Mindsets
What a teacher does or does not know will impact the actions the teacher takes in the classroom.
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Academic Impact Model at Work
• We are going to watch a teacher reflect on his students’ misbehavior.
• While watching, think about the following question:
– How does Mr. Melli reflect using the AIM?
http://lab.tfateams.org/mini-visits-video/justin-meli-taking-stock-misbehavior
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Academic Impact Model at Work
• What are your initial thoughts after watching this video?
• How is Mr. Meli demonstrating the Academic Impact Model?
• How has reflecting through AIM set him up to make the right change in his classroom?
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Why the Academic Impact Model?
• Operating with the AIM in mind is critical in making change in your classroom. Not reflecting in this way could cause you to miss the actual reason students aren’t understanding what you are teaching or why they are misbehaving.
• Reflecting on teacher actions sets you up to tackle the right obstacle.
• “Why fix it if it isn't broke?”
• You want to spend your time focusing on the right areas so that you see big change in your students’ performance.
Why Not?
Why Operate with AIM?
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Agenda
1. Welcome
2. Academic Impact Model
3. Outcomes, Causes, Solutions
4. OCS Reflections
5. Tenure Teacher Training
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Where we are going...
AIM
Co-Inves
t
Destination:
Student Achieveme
ntCo-
Invest
Destination:
Student Achieveme
nt
OCS
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• Coach understands teacher analysis • Coach observes to gather additional evidence and identify a cause. • Coach and teacher co-investigate
•Outcomes have been identified• Causes are aligned and finalized • Solutions are refined and finalized
• Teacher tracks and analyzes data • Teacher problem solves• Teacher tries out solution
What Happens during Problem Solving?
We are here
Accelerate your
students’ academic success
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The aim of a co-investigation is to:
• Develop classroom leadership through data-based problem solving
• Problem solve by figuring out what is going on in a classroom, why it is happening, and what the teacher is going to do about it.
• Helps the teacher prioritize actions and how to spend time
• Progress the class towards hitting end of year goals
CoachTeacher
Coach
Teacher
BEGINNING MIDDLE END
Coach Teacher
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Problem Solving in Your Classroom: The OCS Model
CAUSES
WHY IS IT HAPPENING?
OUTCOMES
WHERE ARE MY STUDENTS RELATIVE TO THE GOAL?
SOLUTIONS
WHAT AM I GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
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Three Keys to Effective Problem Solving . . . #1
• Relies on good data
• Makes logical connections between where your students are, why it’s happening, and what you’re going to do about it.
• Prioritizes the most important things
• What is good data?– TCAP practice test data– Discovery (or any other proxy test) data– Progress Monitoring (Dibels, Aimsweb, running records, etc.)– Quizzes or tests (if you don’t have access to the data above)
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Three Keys to Effective Problem Solving . . . #2
• Relies on good data
• Makes logical connections between where your students are, why it’s happening, and what you’re going to do about it.
• Prioritizes the most important things
Links in a chain CAUSES
WHY IS IT HAPPENING?
OUTCOMES
WHERE ARE MY STUDENTS RELATIVE TO THE BIG GOAL?
SOLUTIONS
WHAT AM I GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
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Three Keys to Effective Problem Solving . . . #3
• Relies on good data
• Makes logical connections between where your students are, why it’s happening, and what you’re going to do about it.
• Prioritizes the most important things
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Problem Solving in Your Classroom: The OCS Model
CAUSES
WHY IS IT HAPPENING?
OUTCOMES
WHERE ARE MY STUDENTS RELATIVE TO THE GOAL?
SOLUTIONS
WHAT AM I GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
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Problem Solve - OCS: Where are my students…?
CAUSES
OUTCOMES WHERE ARE MY STUDENTS RELATIVE TO THE GOAL?
1. Identify progress and gaps in student achievement towards your Goal
2. Identify student actions, understandings/misunderstandings contributing to and ALIGNED to those gaps
3. Prioritize the most important gap.
SOLUTIONS
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Pitfall #1: Ignoring Progress
Progress Gaps
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Pitfall #2: Skipping Student Actions
Students’ Academic Students’ Academic Performance: Progress/GapsPerformance: Progress/Gaps
Students’ Actions: Students’ Actions: Habits, Habits,
Understandings/MisunderstaUnderstandings/Misunderstandingsndings
Teacher’s Actions Teacher’s Actions
Teacher’s Underlying Teacher’s Underlying Knowledge, Knowledge,
Skills & mindsetsSkills & mindsets
OUTCOMES
The Academic Impact Model
CAUSES
X
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What does this look like? Outcomes
Progress Standards:
•7.5.2 (83%mastery)
•7.6.1 (90% mastery)
Student Subgroups:
•Christiania, Izzie, and Alex averaged 90% on Unit 1 test
Aligned Student Actions:
•On task, participating, completing homework on time
•Mastery on Exit Tickets
•Ask & answer questions during class
Gaps Standards:
•7.4.2 (70% mastery)
•7.5.3 (30% mastery)
Student Subgroups:
•Izzie, George, and Derrick averaged 65% on Unit 1 test
•3rd block averaged 45% as a class
Aligned Student Actions, or Misunderstandings:
•Off task behavior,
•Struggled during practice
•Not completing homework
•Talkative, off task, playful after lunch
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Problem Solve - OCS: Why is it happening?
CAUSESWHY IS IT HAPPENING?
1. Identify teacher actions contributing to progress and gaps in student actions and achievement
2. Identify contributing underlying factors & root causes (Knowledge, Skill, Mindset)
OUTCOMES
SOLUTIONS
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What’s in front of you and what’s underneath?
COMPREHENSION
INVESTMENT
EXECUTION PLANNING
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Causes: Progress example
PROGRESS INVESTMENT EXECUTION PLANNING COMPREHENSION
TEACHER ACTIONS
What are you doing that
contributes to the progress
you are seeing?
I have been giving back grades to these students and having them set weekly goals for themselves based on these grades.
In Period 1, I am CFU. I am able to cold call students and give positive praise for correct answers.
I always plan for student questions and misunderstandings.
I have created aligned exit tickets for several lessons that accurately measure progress.
What knowledge, skills, and mindsets do you have that helped you to do this well?
M: This was a tough class at the beginning of the year. I knew I had to invest them quickly.
S: I have classified my students into groups and I always make sure to call someone from each group to CFU.
S: I use my diagnostic data when unit planning and find areas that students didn’t master that are present in this unit.
K: I know that backwards planning leads students to success.
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Causes: Gaps example
GAPS INVESTMENT EXECUTION PLANNING COMPREHENSION
What are you doing that contributes to the gaps you are seeing?
I am unable to reinforce the goal with my students.
I’m not giving all students the opportunity to practice.
I’m not planning to communicate my expectations. I’m saying them, but I could be planning for them better.
I’m only teaching my SPI and I’m not teaching the remedial skills that some students need.
What gaps do you see in your knowledge, skills, and mindsets? (Refer to your TAL rubric)
K: I don’t know how to build their belief that Spanish I will be valuable
S: I’m not sure how to plan for guided practice where all students can participate.
M: I figured since I already taught them, students would follow them, but they aren’t.
K: I’m not sure how to keep on pace with my unit plan and still teach these lower level skills.
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Problem Solve - OCS: What am I going to do about it?
CAUSES
OUTCOMES
SOLUTIONSWHAT AM I GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
1. Consider the gap, student action, and teacher action you identified as most important.
2. Consider the knowledge, skill and/or mindset that aligns to the teacher action.
3. Identify your next steps and try them out
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What does this look like? Solutions (Spanish 1)
Potential Next Steps:
• By Friday, I’ll have polled the members of my department members to get ideas about building “I want.”
• By next Monday, I’ll have designed two solid mini-lessons to build students “I want.”
• I’ll teach the mini-lessons next week.
• By the beginning of my next unit, I’ll have a long-term plan for building and maintaining students’ “I want” throughout the school year.
• Two weeks from now, I’ll see qualitative evidence of increased student effort.
• On my end of unit assessment, which occurs in three weeks, I’ll see a 5% increase in my class averages.
Targeted root causes for building skill in investment:• Knowledge: You don’t know how to build their belief that
Spanish I will be valuable
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Where we are going...
AIM
Co-Inves
t
Destination:
Student Achieveme
ntCo-
Invest
Destination:
Student Achieveme
nt
OCS
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• Coach understands teacher analysis • Coach observes to gather additional evidence and identify a cause. • Coach and teacher co-investigate
•Outcomes have been identified• Causes are aligned and finalized • Solutions are refined and finalized
• Teacher tracks and analyzes data • Teacher problem solves• Teacher tries out solution
What Happens during Problem Solving?
We are here
Accelerate your
students’ academic success
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The coach’s role:
“Thought Partner”
CoachTeacher
Coach
Teacher
BEGINNING MIDDLE END
Coach Teacher
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Tools for Reflection
Pre-Reflection Stage
• Before engaging in a co-investigation, we expect the teacher to reflect on the front end.
• Teacher submits data, planning and a “reflective guide” to the coach prior to the observation.
• Coach prepares for observation, then observes and develops his/her theory.
• Coach and Teacher Co-Investigate.
• Teacher tries out solutions and continues process.
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Reflection Materials
• Please take a few moments to look at the tools provided.
• Some teachers do this reflection on their own, never even needing a coach!
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• Coach understands teacher analysis • Coach observes to gather additional evidence and identify a cause. • Coach and teacher co-investigate
•Outcomes have been identified• Causes are aligned and finalized • Solutions are refined and finalized
• Teacher tracks and analyzes data • Teacher problem solves• Teacher tries out solution
What Happens during Problem Solving?
We are here
Accelerate your
students’ academic success
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Q & A
• Any Questions?