This document outlines coaching goals and strategies for a 6th grade teacher. It discusses using student data from assessments to guide instructional decisions like WIN groups, assignments, and small groups. Teachers will have students read learning targets and explain how lessons connected to them. They will also engage students in accountable talk using sentence stems and differentiated questions. The goals are to analyze student data to intentionally plan instruction and increase instructional rigor through learning targets, accountable talk, and differentiated questions.
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This document outlines coaching goals and strategies for a 6th grade teacher. It discusses using student data from assessments to guide instructional decisions like WIN groups, assignments, and small groups. Teachers will have students read learning targets and explain how lessons connected to them. They will also engage students in accountable talk using sentence stems and differentiated questions. The goals are to analyze student data to intentionally plan instruction and increase instructional rigor through learning targets, accountable talk, and differentiated questions.
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Coaching O3 Guide 2019-2020
Teacher: Savannah Girmscheid Date of O3: 10/8/19
Goal #1: Analyze Data Goal #2: Instructional Rigor
6th grade weekly team meetings will include data checks. For each subject, have a student read the learning target at This includes NHA assessments and observable data (i.e. the beginning of class, then have that student explain at the point sheets, behavior changes/detention records, end of the lesson how the activity connected to the learning participation in accountable talk, student references to target learning targets, math exit tickets, etc.
6th grade teachers will have an in-depth conversation after
Interims reguarding data and next steps. Math: Use math assessment data and exit tickets to Math: engage students in discussing what they learned in intentionally assign WIN groups, assignments in Dreambox previous grades through question stems in math curriculum, and Freckle, and small groups/individual review specific to reference math history logs student needs. ELA: Conferring data will be used to make recommendations for WIN, pull small groups for reteach and clarification, and student partnerships based on data. Math: Use exit tickets to guide daily review of previous Math: Follow differentiated question stems in teacher’s lesson and allow time in schedule to ask homework manual when helping individual students throughout questions. Offer “Are you ready for more?” problems to activities students who need challenge. During math warm up, have an optional challenge problem. ELA: Differentiated questions for individual reading ELA: Freckle assignments based on F&P level and help conferences choosing “just right” books. Fall NWEA scores used to intentially group students. Re-evaluate at-risk push-in groups with every WIN group Distribute accountable talk handuts to all students and change discuss sentence stems CTP students are considered for all small groups and checked in with daily. Train students to automatically use accountable talk throughout discussions without prompting
Math: mark in teacher’s manual when I plan to use the
question stems to guide partner conversations, at least with one per lesson
What’s on your mind? (10 minutes)
Coaching Conversation: Culture, Planning, Teaching, or Assessing (15 minutes)
Framework Indicator Previously Chosen: In what ways does this indicator connect to, or support, your professional learning goals?
Let’s Celebrate! What is going well in regard to this indicator?
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Let’s Reflect: What is an area within this indicator in which you would like to grow? Where are you currently, and where would you like to be?
Closure: (5 minutes)
What are your key take-aways and action steps from today’s O3?
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