Reinvesting and Rebounding

Another fantasic article looking at the main areas to support student acceleration. It also has great articles linked to reserach to back up the findings. It is again reiterating what is being said by many researchers and educators. For my current position it emphasizes the word coach to support the delibrate role of expert teaching. Also the importance of data being data-directed, data-informed, and data-infused. We need to know what is happening is working. Also the student at the center is the most important focusing on the way they best learn and focus the teaching to support this through professional learning communities. Making the content we teach and implement discipline-specific and context-specific. The co-facilitation where teachers are teaching and modeling not just me is important as it Provides multiple opportunities for teachers to engage in the new approaches, interventions, or strategies they plan to implement in their own classrooms with feedback and feedfroward important to bring about change and improvement to practice. Not only comming from the teacher, and facilitator but importantly also the students. Looking at the deliberate acts one I think I need to change is making the task shorter and achievable in the time I am in the class. The environment of the practice allows for the individual to focus on the exercise, task, or experience. To achive this they need time, space, and resources for the teachers to implement the SMART goal in their classroom. Time is the big factor with our 1 hour a week in the class. So changing my task to shorter and achievable in the hour will make a difference. Some of the teachers are good at finishing of the tasks during time I am not in the classroom which allows for the lesson to be effective. Others do not and the time of a week between each lesson removes alot of the motivation and engagement in making the lesson worthwhile. This is an easy to read and thought provoking reasearch and I am looking forward to looking at tsome of the links to other research. When I have the time, which is one of the benifits of lockdown.