August 2013 Day 2 Grand Valley Learning Network

Activating Your Instructional Model If your school has an articulated instructional model (or definition of high-quality instructional practice), what are its core components? What evidence would you need to see in a classroom? If your school does not have an articulated instructional model, what do you think defines high-quality instructional practice?

What do you see? Describe what you see? – Be descriptive? Avoid judgments and evaluation. – Be specific? Avoid vagaries and generalities.

Team Discussion To what degree does this teaching vignette represent our school’s instructional model? – What is your evidence? – What are the specific changes that would bring this in greater alignment with your instructional model?

Mapping Backwards to Professional Collaboration Given your school’s bet, what has to occur consistently in your professional collaboration sessions so that teacher behaviors change to produce the desired improvement in student learning?