Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Learning Target:
Reviewer: Lindsey Robertson
...critically thinking
and engaging in real
and meaningful
discourse
throughout the
lesson cycle?
...making and
justifying
arguments with
evidence?
The activity on
moving symbols
around allowed
students to justify
why they came up
with different
values.
Consider
identifying 2 or 3
questions that
you want all
students to be
able to answer
about the
content before
leaving the class
for the day. Then
use a strategy to
answer each of
those questions.
Students going to
the board were
having difficulty
explaining the
steps to the
problem and that
made it even
harder for them to
justify their
answer. In the
beginning as
students are
getting used to
going to the board
look for students
who have a good
Glows
Grows
...growing
relationships
with their
teachers,
mentors,
community
leaders, and
other
influencers?
The teacher is
friendly and
supportive. The
students are
comfortable
asking the teacher
questions.
grasp on the
concept and let
them be the
example for what
you expect when
presenting at the
board.
CULTURE OF
ACHIEVEMENT
Destructive
Apathetic or Unruly
Compliant and
On Task
Passionate/Urgent
/
Joyful/Caring
Evidence: Continue to address student behavior and engagement as a whole class but consider addressing specific
students who are causing disruption as this can greatly impact the culture of learning in the classroom.
ENGAGEMENT W/
RIGOROUS CONTENT
Not
Challenged/
No learning
Passive or Confused
regarding new
content
Factual recall/
Procedural
Analysis/Application/
Explaining
Evaluation/Synthe
sis/
Creation
Evidence: The order of operations activity was on the analysis level but there were many students struggling with the
worksheet. They would put in the symbols but still use the order of operation incorrectly.
Debrief Notes:
Reviewing schedule was a positive as students were confused yesterday.
Repeating instructions the teacher gave instructions and asked a few students to repeat what they were. Instructions are
very clear and the teacher makes sure that students understand the directions.
One student explained the directions to a student at their table.
Consider a timer for the activity to encourage students to move quickly.
Lesson pacinggoing over answers.
Does anyone know 13 squared? What would we do first? Meaning what? Can you solve what is in the parenthesis for us?
Which is?
Good job asking Vincent to raise his hand while he was calling out.