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ASSESS, REFLECT, PLAN, TEACH, AND REVISE
In the most recent Resident Educator Year 1 session, you explored how Resident Educators and Mentor assess, reflect, plan, teach, and revise following these steps:
- Assess: Understand student needs and collaboratively determine strategies to meet their needs (or assess through reflection of practice)
- Plan: Focus on lesson designs and discuss clear objectives, best practice strategies and activities, and assessments.
- Teach: Teachers implement their lessons in the classroom and, if possible, invite their mentor to observe the lesson.
- Reflect and Revise: Teachers reflect on how their lesson worked in the classroom and mentors assist by providing feedback in order to collaboratively decide on how future lessons can be revised/improved.
- Assess: Teachers analyze student work collaboratively and use that data to make further instructional decisions.
This process is an important step in growing as a teacher and discovering ways to continually improve your teaching practice.
WHAT YOU SHOULD BE DOING NOW AS PART OF THE RESIDENT EDUCATOR PROGRAM
- Schedule regular sessions with your mentor to discuss and reflect on your teaching practices
- Record these discussions on the collaborative log found in your binder in section 4
- Plan a time for your mentor to observe you teaching
- Engage in pre- and post-observation sessions with your mentor to discuss the observation
- Explore other types of observations (listed below):
TYPES OF OBSERVATIONS
Observation by Mentor - Your mentor should observe you at least one time. The goal of these observations may be determined by instructional conversations between mentors and REs and may be related to the professional goals set by the Resident Educator. REs can ask mentors to observe with a particular focus related to goal attainment, a specific instructional strategy or aspect of the lesson or a challenge they have identified. Depending on the reason for the observation, the mentor's focus could be on the students or the teacher or both.
Reciprocal Observations - Reciprocal observations are shared professional observations that may occur between REs and mentors, between veteran teachers and REs, between REs and REs, between administrators and staff, etc. They may be experienced in real time or via electronic devices. This spirit of reciprocity exists in all observation formats. It is the understanding that both the observer and the one being observed gain insights into the complexities of teaching and best practices. Reciprocal observations formalize this philosophy by providing opportunities for professionals to share the same experience, to establish common language and common understandings of teacher standards and common qualities of effective teacher performance.
Exemplary Observations - Teacher to teacher modeling has the greatest impact on teacher improvement. (Douglas Reeves). Exemplary teacher observations bring the deepest change in instructional practices and have the greatest impact on increased student achievement. They should occur as frequently as possible throughout the life of a teacher.
MEETING CANCELLATIONS DUE TO WEATHER OR OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES
RE sessions will be held as scheduled unless there are extreme conditions that interfere. This would be a rare occurrence. If a session is cancelled or changed, participants will be notified by email from the ESC of Lake Erie West by 2 p.m. so be sure to check your email prior to leaving school.
NEXT SESSION 1.3
- January 31, 2019 Topics will include: Collaboration, Data Tool, &
Student Assessment
Homework before Session 1.3
- Begin Focused Mentoring 1 Activity - Communication
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Make the Most of Your Mentor
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