1. Green Hills Academy March 2019
AdvancED Visit
Green Hills Academy
March 2019

2. Format of visit May 21, 22 and 23 they will be on campus 6 person team
Eleots
Interviews: students, parents, teachers, leadership, board
Data walk and curriculum alignment protocol

3. Classroom environment
Quality student work displayed
Classroom rules
IB learner profile
Visual aids
Neat and tidy
If you need maintenance please tell us!

4. Eleots
Please do not re-teach something or cover something the students have mastered. This is obvious to them. They want to see students engaged, challenged and taking risks! Also, please do not give any tests or long quizzes this day.

5. GHA Instructional Strategies
Setting clear objectives at the beginning of each lesson in student-friendly language
Inquiry based learning
Differentiation
Scaffolding
Providing clear and effective feedback to students
Higher order questioning and thinking
Regular formative assessment
Regular peer assessment
Project based learning
Peer teaching and collaboration
Learning centres
Cooperative learning

6. Checking for understanding
If you want to rely on teacher questioning try this:
Equity sticks
Think-pair-share
Table discussion
5 fingers (each finger corresponds to an answer)
Incorporate wait time to give all a chance to respond

7. continued If you want to use technology try: Kahoot Quizlet
Google form

8. continued
If you want to check for misconceptions ask a yes/no question and do thumbs up/down
If it is the end of the lesson try an exit ticket
Question tied to the learning objective
What stuck with you?
1 thing I learned, 1 thing I knew, 1 think I don’t understand

9. Benefits for the teacher
Who is and is not understanding the lesson?
What are this student’s strengths and needs/challenges?
What misconceptions do I need to address?
What feedback should I give students?
What adjustments should I make to instruction?
How should I group students?
What differentiation do I need to prepare?
Slide 24 (Activity #6)
This list comes from Chapter 1 of the book Seven Strategies of Assessment for Learning, page 9. You can use it to debrief the discussion of teacher information needs, comparing what they said to this list and noting similarities.
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