Teaching Context

TEACHING CONTEXT

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Let’s Review The Sample Data Narrative

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The Sample Data Narrative Is Written By Kip Dynamite

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The Sample Data Narrative Is Written By Kip Dynamite

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We’ll review the sample Data Narrative one section at a time


Kip’s Data Narrative Isn’t Perfect! But it is Proficient.

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AGENDA OBJECTIVES

Agenda and Objectives

• Intro• Teaching Context• Data Analysis for All Students• Data Analysis for Subgroups of

Students• Data Analysis for One Student• Closing

Compare examples of a written teaching context to determine characteristics of a strong submission

Identify requirements for academic analysis in the Data Narrative

Compare various graphs, charts, and tables to determine best practices for displaying student data

Compare various summaries and explanations to determine best practices for describing student data

Describe relationships between various measures of student performance


Teaching Context: Warm Up

Click ahead when you’ve completed the appropriate section

of your Handout


Teaching Context: Warm Up

The Teaching Context is your opportunity to discuss where you teach, what you teach, and who you teach.

It gives your reader a window into your context to frame the rest of your

analysis.


Teaching Context: Rubric & Assessment Template

This is in your Handout


Read Kip’s Teaching Context Section.Consider Questions Below.

1) Does Kip clearly and completely describe where, what, and who he is teaching?

2) Who do you think is the projected audience for Kip’s write-up?

3) What do you notice about how Kip organizes the flow of these paragraphs?

Click ahead when you’ve read the

appropriate section of the Sample Data

Narrative


Describes Where, What, Who?

Where:Preston, Idaho…

What:2nd grade, all subjects (self-contained)…

Who:Classroom composition reflective of Pioneer Elementary overall, also has five family members in his classroom…http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4yD9IqXA2Yo/TqYYAT5qWCI/AAAAAAAABL8.jpg


Who is the Projected Audience? Why?

Let’s call them an “educated but otherwise uninformed audience.”

Kip doesn’t use acronyms unfamiliar to the reader and doesn’t use edu-speak lingo.

Think of the Data Narrative as something you’re writing to your future grandchildren.

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What About the Paragraph Organization/Flow?

Kip starts big picture, and zooms into greater and greater detail about his classroom.

He talks about Preston generally, then gets detailed about the specific school where he teaches and the classroom he teaches in.

It’s good writing also! http://img.bhs4.com/e7/0/e7078c91e82d8813daf11df522eb6e1bdde551b0_large.jpg


Where Did He Find All That Great Info?

• The World Wide Web• School Administrators• Student Information System


Teaching Context Section: 3 vs. 4

What information Kip obtained was

available via the internet.

To earn a ‘4’, you’ll need to find information that we can’t obtain via web search.

See Warm-Up for ideas.

What information Kip obtained was

available via the internet.


Citations

Don’t forget to cite your sources!