A Year of Professional Learning Quality Teaching: Purpose and Engagement

November 19, 2013

Vision 2020

Dimensions of Quality Teaching and Learning

From Leading for Instructional Improvement, by Stephen Fink and Anneke Markholt, 2011

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5 Dimensions The Vision

Purpose Standards The lesson is based on Common Core Standards. It is meaningful and relevant beyond the task at hand and helps students learn and apply transferrable knowledge and skills. The lesson is intentionally linked to other lessons to support students in meeting standards.

Learning Targets and Teaching Points

The learning target is very clearly articulated, linked to standards, and understood by the students.

Student Engagement

Intellectual Work The learning embodies intellectual engagement. The students take ownership of their learning to develop, test, and refine their thinking.

Engagement Strategies

Engagement strategies build on the students’ academic background, life experiences, culture, and language to support rigorous and culturally relevant learning. The strategies encourage equitable and purposeful student participation and ensure that all students have access to, and are expected to participate in learning.

Talk Talk reflects discipline specific habits of thinking and ways of communicating. Talk reflects intellectual thinking.

What does the California Standards for the Teaching Profession say about Quality Teaching?

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Quality teaching requires careful crafting of learning communities built on trust and respect, as well as routines, expectations, resources, and strategies that support diverse students’ intellectual engagement in learning. Quality teaching happens through thoughtful planning focused on defined outcomes for student learning and leveraging of teachable moments. Quality teaching is revealed in the ways in which teachers respond to the strengths and needs of individual students while engaging and supporting all students in their learning. Quality teaching is a form of inquiry wherein teachers use evidence and analysis of students’ strengths and struggles, and their own performance, to guide their practice in support of student learning. Quality teaching relies on engagement within a professional community. Teachers in California have a professional responsibility to provide students with safe and caring learning environments, where students’ differences are celebrated and supported, and they acquire the knowledge, skills, strategies, and concepts they will need for successful participation in increasingly technological and global society.

Quality Teaching The 5 Dimensions of Teaching and Learning

5 Dimensions

Purpose

Standards Learning Targets

Engagement

Intellectual Work

Talk and Engagement

Strategies

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Appreciative Inquiry: Where do we have examples of Clear Purpose and Intellectual Engagement happening in our district? How do we grow our practice across the system?

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Classroom Observations

Professional Learning

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Marvin Elementary Focusing on Common Core

Classroom Visits

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Crawford High Focusing on Lessons with a Clear Purpose

School Visits

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Wangenheim Middle School Offering a Broad and Challenging Curriculum

Classroom Visits

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Visit to Marshall Middle School

Global Achievement

Gap-21st Century Skills

Habits of Mind

Engagement and

Student Talk

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Marshall Middle School 6th Grade English

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Classroom Visits

Departments Perkins K-8

Office of Accountability Finance Student Services

Division Police Services Integrated Technology

Services Legal Department

Clear Purpose and Intellectual Engagement

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Perkins 8th Grade Science Instructional Team Discussing the Work

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Purpose & Engagement

Tierrasanta Elementary

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Common Core Shifts and Intellectual Engagement

University City High School Science

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Intellectual Engagement