Project Meeting - January 14, 2011
McDaniel College, Academic Hall; 3rd Floor
8:30 Continental Breakfast
9:00 Introductions and Project Update – Francis (Skip) Fennell
9:45 Common Core Update - National update; share by county
10:45 Mathematical Practices and Classroom Expectations - A Professional Development Opportunity
- Practice: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
11:35 Council for Educator Effectiveness - Classroom Teacher's Evaluation Update - Judy Walker
- Teachers use a model similar to MMSR; teacher's evaluation based on student progress AND "what the teacher is doing about it" (building off SI goals, developing an action plan, and strategic follow-up).
- Teacher Effectiveness - :"Effective" teacher - reflective on data and using appropriate resources and strategies, taking action; "highly effective" - collaborate with others [outside of their team])
- Ideas for Coaches/Specialists
12:00 Lunch
12:45 Mini-Grants Sharing and Discussion - Please bring drafts of the Evaluation Plan for your Mini-Grant (ready to share). Evaluations should address the following:
1) Brief description of project (1 paragraph)
- Baltimore County - Provide PD related to fractions (w/connections to the CCSS); increase teacher understanding of fractions to help 4th and 5th grade students build a deeper understanding; use of NAEP pre- and post-assessment items; 25 teachers (7 have committed to participate) have been invited to participate in meetings (next week is the first). Manipulatives and other resources were provided through the grant. Fractions Beyond Pizzas and Pies - 10 reflection questions for teachers (also pre/post) w/appr. three pre- and post-items that are (fractions) content based. Livescribe will be used to examine student thinking and shared during PD.
- Howard County A - Three schools w/MSTs (1st-5th grade and GT teachers); three sessions that focus on division, fractions, and decimals. Livescribe pens for each teacher. Increasing teachers content knowledge of fraction concepts and developing the ability to use the Livescribe pen to improve teacher understanding of student knowledge of fraction and decimal concepts. 29 pencasts (16 fractions, 13 additional pencasts). Use Fractions Beyond Pizzas and Pies was also used. Three surveys will be administered. Video snippets from PD sessions will be collected.
- Howard County B - Using Livescribes and Flip Cameras in both PLES (Kelly) and BBES (Claudia). PLES participants use Livescribe pens; focus on formative assessment and written communication in mathematics (pre-assessment administered to 6 participating teachers; session feedback collected). Student misconceptions captured by pencasts are shared with classroom teachers. Next assignment requires teachers to bring pencasts and debrief. Intervention should take place with students. Kelly will videotape teachers conducting pencast assessments in the future. Evaluation of how teacher knowledge of formative assessment has increased and how the pencasts have helped inform teacher understanding of student knowledge will be conducted.
- Carroll County - Standards for Mathematical Practice are the focus; the development of "higher level" problems; assessment of prior knowledge of the practices has taken place. Flip cameras and pencasts are being used to demonstrate student use of mathematical practices
- Frederick County - Timeline (4 meetings per year). 11 [former] specialists (currently classroom teachers, school-based and county-based specialists, math facilitator, targeted math interventionists, etc.). Participants will use Livescribe pens and flip cameras for assessment purposes; evaluation will include a post-survey that assesses the effectiveness of the use of technology. Each participant will use the Livescribe pen to create a pre- and post-assessments based on an identified "need" (e.g., targeted mathematical topic) for a student or students (e.g., student think aloud). May 16 will be an all-day meeting to finalize project findings. The pencasts and videos will be used to develop a bank of PD resources (Pencasts and teachers discussing pencasts).
2) Project evaluation questions:
- What will you do?
- When will you do it?
- How will it be accomplished?
- How many students and/or teachers were (or will be) impacted?
- What's the data? (Is this measurable?)
- How will you talk about it?
1:45 "Supporting" our work; teacher satisfaction surveys “ems&tl could make an instrument available to survey staff within/across districts” - Beth Kobett, Jon Wray (Presentation Slides)
Thoughts on Teacher Feedback….
Organizational thoughts:
- Keep questions focused and to a minimum
- Vary question types
- Having an idea bank of questions
- Have I gathered enough information from you to meet your needs?
- How has this position supported you?
- How have you applied new learning and what impact has it had on student achievement?
- What is an example of when your thinking was challenged this year and what did you do with that?
- How comfortable are you in coming to me to as a question?
- Self-reflection at the end of year to focus on a goal for the coming year.
- Ask teachers what they would like to focus on in math instruction for the coming year.
- When I go back to my school I am going to use what I learned by….
- My MIL has helped me by…
- Unbiased colleague be a process observer
- What changes could I make to meet your needs effectively?
- How has our work together impacted your math students?
- What were the highlights of our work together?
- What would you change when we work together again?
- How can we support you? Follow up? Continue this?
- Level of content knowledge
- How did what you “learned” today impact what you will do differently in your classroom?
- How will this impact your students and their achievement/or depth of understanding?
- Reflect upon your growth over time.
- How have you applied ________ and did you apply it in the way you thought you were going to?
- What impact did ______ have on your everyday instruction.
3:00 Upcoming Dates
3:30 Final questions, comments?
Action Items:
- All ems&tl participants - "This Works!" submission to Skip in the next two weeks
- Jon - contact Janet Sankar re: printable Livescribe paper with Liza's SFMP template...
- Skip, look into NCTM's Making It Happen book and e-book
- Judy Walker will provide ongoing updates on the work of the Council for Educator Effectiveness - Classroom Teacher's Evaluation. We should all be thinking about the implications for our roles and providing Judy with insights and recommendations.
- Pick up where we left off with Supporting" our work; teacher satisfaction surveys “ems&tl could make an instrument available to survey staff within/across districts”
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