Classroom Feedback Form
We will begin a pilot of a classroom feedback form next week. The feedback on this form is intended to provide data for each individual's professional growth. It was given it to a couple of people already who used it for self-reflection and changes were made as a result of their feedback. It aligns directly with Coeur d'alene School District Instructional Framework.
After visiting 200 schools in 50 states, Ted Dintersmith identified four areas of focus that were present in the most successful classrooms. He called these PEAK principals:
Purpose: Students are engaged in meaningful work that connects to real-world initiatives - they are creating solutions to real problems.
Essential: Those lessons that remain with the student after leaving the classroom are the essential qualities that stretch beyond content knowledge. Ted Sizer called these lessons the "residuals" of education. They are the habits of mind that are essential to know, but difficult to test and include critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, the capacity to reflect etc.
Agency: When students are given opportunity and taught to own their learning, they become self-directed young adults. They need to reflect on their own learning, evaluate their progress and have the freedom to explore their own interests. Teachers guide them to manage their own time and find solutions to their own problems.
Knowledge: Students acquire deep knowledge by applying what they learn to real life situations and by teaching others. These practices ensure that knowledge is deep and retained rather than held in short term memory to be quickly forgotten.
Please print off a copy of the form and use it to reflect on learning opportunities in your own classroom. To what extent are you currently developing these four cornerstones of transformative instruction? Where do you feel it's going well? What do you need to move forward?
How does our instruction develop agency in students? Here is an article that I found interesting
This quote really speaks to me:
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