- [Teacher] What's another strategy?
- Uh, area model.
- [Teacher] Area model, okay who wants to do an area model?
- [Narrator] Because the Lab school staff gets
regular opportunities to participate in learning walks,
both as participants and also as hosts,
it really strengthens the culture of the school,
helps build the shard vision
and allows a spirit of continuous learning.
- The Lab school is located on a university campus,
in the College of Education
and we have a dual mission to serve
the children at the school,
which is currently kindergarten through grade eight
as well as pre-service teachers.
- Learning Walks is a big part of our mission.
It gives people who are teaching in our school
as well as people who are learning how to be teachers
the opportunity to watch other people teach,
which you don't generally get casue
you're in your classroom teaching all the time.
- [Margaret] A Learning Walk is just
a structured observation through a school.
It's used for continuous growth and improvement.
It is important that all teachers get to experience
what it's like to observe in other teacher's classrooms
and learn from others as well as to have teachers
come in and visit them and learn from them.
- I really like Learning Walks,
especially as a fairly new teacher to this building.
It's really helped me gain perspective
on what my students have experienced.
It facilitates this, we're all in this together,
what can we learn from each other?
Some of the times the best things that are going on
are happening in your own building
and you might miss them
because you're doing your own thing too.
- He can run at a rate of 11 feet per second.
- The Learning Walks follow a pretty specific protocol.
It starts with an overview of the process
and sets some parameters for participation.
Thanks everyone for joining our Learning Walk team today.
A focus is identified for the Learning Walks
and it can be a really broad focus,
like teaching and learning
or a pretty specific focus, like classroom management.
Today's Learning Walk focus is going to be on Math.
We're going to be looking at
the power of mistakes and struggle,
rich mathematical tasks and assessment for a growth mindset.
Learning Walk participant's role is to
observe what's happening and know that
they're going to get an opportunity to talk
about those things later
but to avoid making judgements and to reframe
any kind of thinking along those lines into questions.
- Did you understand Miles' answer?
- Yes.
- How would you know that you made a mistake?
- [Margaret] Participants are encouraged to take notes
and jot down what they observe, what they see,
what they hear and also what their questions are,
things they wonder about.
It gives us a snapshot of other teacher's teaching.
- How many do I have across here?
- 14.
- And it reminds us of, oh they did an exit ticket,
I really keep forgetting to do those,
I need to pull those back in.
You know, we catch those little things
because we're always watching and trying to get new ideas.
The Learning Walk for teachers,
I think is really beneficial.
- I do carry a timer and I rely on that timer
to keep the Learning Walk moving.
After going through all of the observations
is a time for reflection
and we generally start the reflection process
by having a few broad reflection questions.
Take a minute and look over the reflection questions.
Reflection is probably the most valuable
part of the Learning Walk.
One of my favorite reflection questions is,
does anyone want to start and share any questions,
wonderings, surprises that you noticed?
- Kindergartners, when they were done with the task,
they partner up with the next person done
and I added that to my ideas that I might
apply in my classroom, I thought that was really neat.
- Anything that you would recommend to be changed?
- I would always like to see,
like two minutes longer in each class.
- The amount of time is always hard
but the benefit of going to six different classrooms
in a short amount of time is that you get
a glimpse of many classrooms instead of
an extended observation of one
and now you know where you might want to go back
and do some more observing in that specific classroom.
- This is the first Learning Walk that I've been on.
It was clear after being on this today that
it's a powerful tool because I could see what
my colleagues were doing in grades behind me
and then grades all the way up to middle school.
So I can see where I fit in that picture.
- What would the clock look like up here?
And then when we get here, it would be...
- You know, I never get to step outside and go next door
and see what my colleagues are doing.
I'm always here so,
I think that's really powerful.
- These are fifth graders, right?
- It's amazing how when teachers go into classrooms,
even if they're different levels
and different content areas from what they teach,
what they can learn from each other
and I've never had a Learning Walk where
people didn't walk away with some ideas
about something new that they saw,
something they want to try,
something that they were interested in.
For more infomation >> A Pele que Habito | Baco Exu do Blues - Duration: 4:02. 
No comments:
Post a Comment