Enhancing Teacher Performance
Summary of Curricular Context: The workshop was designed to introduce teachers to specific strategies they will need to practice in order to develop into distinguished professionals. Reflection is a key component across all domains of teacher performance. Teachers will need to know how to analyze and evaluate their performance through reflections in order to determine what works and what doesn’t in an effort to improve their instruction. Teachers need to be able to determine their effectiveness by evaluating student performance. Before participating in the workshop teachers should be able to recognize that teacher performance effects student learning. In this lesson, teachers will learn the importance of self-reflection, its components, and how to use self-reflections in the classroom to improve instructional practices.
Standard / Objectives for Unit or Lesson: (Illinois and, or ISTE NETS)
STANDARD 10 - Reflection and Professional Growth
The teacher is a reflective practitioner who continually evaluates how choices and actions affect students, parents, and other professionals in the learning community and actively seeks opportunities to grow professionally.
Lesson Goal:
All teachers will use self-reflections as a source for improving instruction to meet the needs of all learners
Stage 1
Enduring Understandings What are the overarching enduring understandings for the unit/lesson? (big ideas that transcend the unit)
1. Understand why self-reflection in teaching is important
2. Understand how to effectively use self-reflection to improve teacher performance
3. Understand how self-reflection impact professional development
Essential Questions What are the essential questions you can ask to guide inquiry?
1. What can you do to be more proactive in your development as a professional?
2. How does your performance as an instructor impact student learning?
3. Why is it necessary to evaluate and improve some of your instructional practices regularly.
Knowledge & Skills
Knowledge Skills
Identify key components of self-reflection
Identify strengths and weaknesses of student and teacher
Define self-reflection
Write a self-reflection
Use self-reflection to evaluate performance
Assess student performance
Determine effective and ineffective strategies and practices
Hi Latasha,
ReplyDeleteI liked how the skills included being able to determine the difference in between effective and ineffective strategies.
What is this lesson going to look like? Is it a workshop? Maybe self-reflections can done via technology for easy reference by the administrators - you can tie in the technology standards then.
As we struggled with the idea of enduring understandings in class this week, I believe the enduring understandings are global ideas. I think your ideas are too specific. Rather understanding how to self-reflect and importance of professional development as separate understandings may be better.
Latasha, I found your overarching understandings and essential questions to be very relevant to the lesson goal of having teachers practice reflection to improve their teachings. I was, however, unclear on "Standard 10". Perhaps writing the source (Illinois and, or ISTE NETS) would make this a little clearer. With that said, how important do you think it is to list specific standards when it comes to teaching teachers rather than students?
ReplyDeleteLatasha-
ReplyDeleteGreat lesson. Is the overarching question specifically big idea form? I definitely think so. What a great question and self reflection. Do you think using the specific template could be easier to follow?