Well today was my first day back at my new job. It was a great day! I had the pleasure of spending time in an Instructional Rounds training with all the principals in my district, Dr. McDonald, and Mrs. Smith-Faulkner. I love professional development opportunities. I feel so energized and ready to get back to the campus to make a difference.
Instructional Rounds concept is all about using the real live instruction to target a practice to improve. It was a practice adapted from the field of medicine, with the idea of coming together to solve common problems and improve practice. I love the idea of targeted improvement, with the most simplistic concept of if you want to improve learning you must improve teaching. Through the Instructional Rounds practice, teachers identify the issue, observer teacher and student actions, behaviors, and instructional practice, analyze that observation, and come up with a small target goals with actions to get there.
Using observation through instruction rounds
- Will increase the pedagogical skill of educators within a district or school through the reflective discussion that follows an observation.
- Will enable observers to compare and contrast their practice with observed practice.
- Will empower the observed teachers to use the information gleaned from their observations to reflect on their own practice.
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increase the pedagogical skill of educators within a district or school
through the reflective discussion that follows an observation. - See
more at:
http://www.iobservation.com/iObservation/instructional_rounds/#sthash.kE4IBJO8.dpuf
My passion is to make teachers the best they can be. Instructional Rounds is a tool to do this. I am ready for Day 2 and Day 3 in hopes of mastering Instructional Rounds for teaching improvement.
Interesting article I read when looking at online resources
Why Aren't School Leaders More Like Doctors?
http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3754210
Amie, our training together as an instructional team was very positive and truly a great way to work as an administrative team. I'm glad you're going to be a part of what our district is doing at the campus level. Let me know if I can be of help. Good luck!
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