Ongoing+Feedback

=Ongoing Feedback & Observation Tools=

====//In order to maximize the intern's growth, mentors need to provide regular, frequent feedback. **Mentors should conduct a targeted observation of the intern during at least one lesson each week**//. These observations should vary in focus and utilize a range of observation tools (see below) that will provide raw data to interns in order to enable them to analyze and reflect on what is happening in the classroom.====
 * ====//In order to help ensure that supervisors are able to complement the work of mentors without having to hold additional meetings, I am asking interns to keep a folder with all of their written lesson plans and all of the observation tools* completed by mentors in the classroom for supervisors to look through when they arrive for an observation.//====

1. Observation Tools:
====Here is a collection of observation tools I have assembled thus far, but please don't feel limited to these. If you have any that you are willing to share, I'd love to add more to our collection. The first form is the one that our Supervisors will be using that is directly aligned with the PBA.====
 * = === Big Picture === ||= === Lesson Design and Assessments === ||= === Discussion Strategies/Questioning === ||
 * = [[file:Observation Feedback & Goals Form 2011-12revised.doc]] ||= [[file:Lesson_Plan_Evaluation.doc]] ||= [[file:Blooms Questions.doc]] ||
 * = [[file:Four Square Obs Commentary.doc]] ||= [[file:Checklist for examining lesson plans designed by intern.doc]] ||= [[file:Blooms Observation Sheet2.doc]] ||
 * = [[file:Minute Map.doc]] ||= [[file:Checklist for examining assessments designed by intern.doc]] ||=  ||
 * [[file:EmersonStudentInternObservation.docx]] ||  ||   ||
 * = === Developing Disciplinary Thinking === ||= === Teacher/Student Interaction === ||= === Student Focused === ||
 * = [[file:Background Knowledge.doc]] ||= [[file:Focus of exchanges obs.doc]] ||= [[file:Tracking Indiv Students Attn.doc]] ||
 * = [[file:Lesson clarity.doc]] ||= [[file:Teacher Response Log PARC.docx]] ||= [[file:Monitoring Student Engagement.doc]] ||
 * = [[file:Historical Thinking Support.doc]] ||= [[file:Verbal Flow Seating Chart.doc]] ||= === ===

Classroom Management
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 * = [[file:HTS Questions.doc]] ||= [[file:Think Time Observation Tool.doc]] ||= [[file:Classroom Management.doc]] ||
 * =  ||= [[file:Think Time Observation Tool2.doc]] ||= [[file:Teacher Movement Chart.doc]] ||

**2. Expected Forms of Feedback:**

 * ====__Praise__**:** Be sure to include specific praise - if interns don't realize that something they did was good, they won't know to repeat it.====
 * ====__Constructive Criticism:__ identify specific areas of concern and encourage interns to develop a problem-solving approach====
 * ====__Ideas and advice:__ offer suggestions, alternative approaches, experiences you've had, etc.====
 * ====__Raw observation data__: interns are more likely to be able to observe and reflect on their own classroom during their first years of teaching if they have opportunities to examine and analyze observation data prior to hearing the conclusions and suggestions of the mentor or supervisor.====

In addition to the guidance you'll give your intern day in and day out, mentors should provide feedback specifically on:

 * =====__lesson plans__: interns must submit draft written lesson plans to the mentor at least 2 work days in advance of the lesson (the mentor can require that lesson plans be submitted further in advance).=====
 * =====__assessment of student learning__: mentors should provide feedback on assessment tools, cross-grade some student work, examine representative samples of student work that the intern has graded, etc.=====
 * =====__teaching__: see notes above regarding observation tools.=====