Formative Classroom Walkthroughs: How Principals and Teachers Collaborate to Raise Student Achievement
About this ebook
Learn the value of having the observer examine the lesson from the student's point of view and seek evidence of seven key learning components:
* A worthwhile lesson
* A learning target
* A performance of understanding
* Look-fors, or success criteria
* Formative feedback
* Student self-assessment
* Effective questioning
Drawing upon their research and extensive work with K-12 teachers and administrators, Moss and Brookhart delve into the learning target theory of action that debuted in Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today's Lesson and show you how to develop a schoolwide collaborative culture that enhances the learning of teachers, administrators, coaches, and students. They present detailed examples of how formative walkthroughs work across grade levels and subject areas, and provide useful templates that administrators and coaches can use to get started now.
Grounded in the beliefs that schools improve when educators improve and that the best evidence of improvement comes from what we see students doing to learn in every lesson, every day, Formative Classroom Walkthroughs offers a path to improvement that makes sense and makes a difference.
About the author
Connie M. Moss, EdD, is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Foundations and Leadership in the School of Education at Duquesne University and director of the Center for Advancing the Study of Teaching and Learning (CASTL). She served for 25 years as a KÐ12 educator, spending 17 of those years in early childhood, elementary, and middle school classrooms. She continued her public school service as an educational leader of multidistrict, regional, and statewide initiatives in curriculum planning and assessment. The recipient of numerous teaching awards, she has been an invited speaker and presenter in more than 700 school districts, 100 universities and colleges, and many educational associations and organizations. She is the coauthor, with Susan M. Brookhart, of ASCD's Advancing Formative Assessment in Every Classroom and Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in TodayÕs Lesson. She may be reached at [email protected].
Susan M. Brookhart, PhD, is an independent educational consultant based in Helena, Montana. She has taught both elementary and middle school. She was professor and chair of the Department of Educational Foundations and Leadership at Duquesne University, where she currently serves as senior research associate in the Center for Advancing the Study of Teaching and Learning in the School of Education.
