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Coaching Dialogue/Transcript
THE SCENARIO:
Mr. Michaels, a second-year Assistant Principal, appraises Mrs. Hill, who has been teaching grade six math for four years. Mrs. Hill has been teaching a total of 10 years. Mrs. Hill teaches a mixture of on-level and advanced students. Parents have emailed Mr. Michaels to complain that students feel afraid of Mrs. Hill. Students report that she is mean and does not let them talk or do anything fun in her math class. They spend more than half of the class copying “notes” off the screen. They feel that math is boring and have told their parents that they are afraid that they will not pass the STAAR Math test because Mrs. Hill does not teach them anything. Students say that Mrs. Hill requires them to copy pages and pages of notes, sometimes up to ten pages in a class, and when they ask Mrs. Hill a question about a math problem, her response is, “Check your notes.”
Mr. Michaels decides to observe Mrs. Hill’s math classes during different periods of the day over the course of one week. . His initial observation involves visiting the first period class for twenty minutes. At the sound of the first-period bell, Mr. Michaels enters, scans the room and observes that students are quite and well behaved. He then observes Mrs. Hill conduct a six-minute warm up, introduce a lesson, using “I Do, We do, You do” and sees Mrs. Hill walk around, observing students working independently. Mrs. Hill checks on students while they are working and tells them that they may begin their homework.
Two days go by that Mr. Michaels is not available to observe Mrs. Hill’s class. However, he sends for several of Mrs. Hill’s students from different class periods and asks to see their math notebooks. He discovers that there are several
(8-10) pages of notes from the days following his initial observation in each of the student notebooks. He asks students about these notes. They tell him that almost the entire class period is usually devoted to copying pages of notes from the whiteboard. Students also tell Mr. Michaels that they feel intimidated by Mrs. Hill and are afraid to ask questions. He is wondering if what he saw in his initial observation was the proverbial “dog and pony show, “ and not reflective of what happens on a daily basis in Mrs, Hill’s classes – that it was for the benefit of the observation and not typical of what usually happens.
You are Mr. Michaels, the appraiser. Create a plan of action that addresses:
Describe what will you do first? Explain why this is the priority.
How will you determine an accurate, overall amount of active student engagement in all of Mrs. Hill’s classes? Describe what you will do.
Write 3-5 goals for Mrs. Hill to address instructional strategies that will increase student engagement. Include a plan that reduces the volume of notes students are required to copy during class.
Choose 3-5 Lemov strategies that Mrs. Hill can use immediately to improve instruction and address how students are feeling.
How will you respond to the parent emails?
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Coaching Dialogue/Transcript
Active engagement in classrooms is an important consideration which should be considered to ensure an effective student achievement. Lack of effective student engagement in class is a concept which favors the high rates of learner dropouts or poor performance resulting to drastic social and economic repercussions as experienced within the society (Groves, Sellars, Smith & Barber, 2015). Facing the challenges associated with poor engagement level in class requires an increased attentiveness to the reasons that some of the learners achieve less and give up on their studies. In the case of Mrs. Hill, a situation of lack of engagement is experienced as the parents and students complain to the Assistant Principle that the learners are always “copying notes off the screen.” This paper explores the case of student engagement while providing recommendations about how the situation should be handled.
Describe what will you do first? Explain why this is the priority
The first step to be considered includes composing a questionnaire for the learners and the parents which are to be completing to ascertain factors of the different levels of student engagement while in the classrooms. Woods (2017) States that Questionnaires are effective tools which have strong ability of assessing the different levels of engagement. This can also include self-reported measures completed by the learners themselves while other are completed by the parents. This will be considered as a priority since it is effective in documenting a clear picture of the student’s behavior, feelings, and thinking when it comes to matters related with Mrs. Hill’s method of teaching and engagement.
How will you determine an accurate, overall amount of active student engagement in all of Mrs. Hill’s classes? Describe what you will do
Active student engagement is important in class. However, requiring the students and their parents to complete the questionnaires alone is not enough to obtain an accurate finding about the learners’ level of engagement. Therefore, implementing a consistent direct observation process will also be necessary to establish the overall amount of active student engagement in all of Mrs. Hill’s classes. Despite having engaged in a single observation session in the past, I will ensure that this time is different by relying on consistency for change. Through observation, I will monitor factors such as the method of teaching implemented by the teacher. I will also observe the students to establish if they are paying attention in class depending on the method that the educator relies on to teach the subject. I will also check on factors such as disruptive behavior, underachievement and with withdrawal levels to build on an effective case about instances of poor engagement.
Write 3-5 goals for Mrs. Hill to address instructional strategies that will increase student engagement. Include a plan that reduces the volume of notes students are required to copy during class.
Goals
- To ensure that the learners share their work regularly and to present their assignment on a regular basis after the end of the tutoring session.
- To ensure that student take part in more group work sessions (at least 4 times a week) including discussions rather than engaging in more sessions of note taking.
- To create teaching plans which engage with the learner’s interests such as mathematical games and learning activities in place of more note taking lessons.
Plan
To ensure that the amount of notes taken by the students is reduced, Mrs. Hill will be encouraged to schedule only two sessions per week whereby the learners will be encouraged to take notes on the required classwork. During the other sessions, the students will be required to engage in more collaborations and group discussions as a way of study.
Choose 3-5 Lemov strategies that Mrs. Hill can use immediately to improve instruction and address how students are feeling.
To ensure a fast improvement, circulate is one of the Lemov strategies to be considered by the educator. This will include having the educator move around the class during the tutoring sessions as the students interact with their course material (Lemov, 2019). Additionally, the teacher will also consider the use of cold calling strategy. In this case, Mrs. Hill will ensure that the children are always on their toes when teaching. For instance, asking questions and naming any of the students to answer is a requisite strategy to be considered to ensure that the student remain engaged during the study sessions (Lemov, 2019). Call and response session is also desirable in this case. Under this strategy, the educator will ask questions when teaching and ensure that all the student answer at once. This promotes engagement and the capability of the students to learn by themselves (Groves, Sellars, Smith & Barber, 2015).
How will you respond to the parent emails?
The parents are effective stakeholders to the learning institutions. Therefore, addressing any of their concerns is a requisite move which should always be accomplished while in class. I will respond to the parents’ emails through the use of a single email reply. In this case, I will document that I acknowledge the existence of the problem experienced by the learners related with the case of poor engagement. Additionally, I will ensure that the parents are effectively informed about the fundamental steps taken to establish the problem. Moreover, I will highlight the steps taken as remedy and ensure the parents that Mrs. Hill is effectively advised on the proper action steps to undertake to prevent this situation from recurring in the future.
References
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Groves, M., Sellars, C., Smith, J., & Barber, A. (2015). Factors Affecting Student Engagement: A Case Study Examining Two Cohorts of Students Attending a Post-1992 University in the United Kingdom. International Journal of Higher Education. 4. 10.5430/ijhe.v4n2p27.
Lemov, D. (2019). Forgetting how to read. Education Next, 19(2) Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/forgetting-how-read/docview/2198519059/se-2?accountid=45049
Woods, S. (2017). The pedagogy of science teachers from non-natural science backgrounds (Order No. 10602180). Available from Publicly Available Content Database. (1953257581). Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/pedagogy-science-teachers-non-natural-backgrounds/docview/1953257581/se-2?accountid=45049
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