Individualized Coaching
Individualized Coaching
- Three phases of the coaching cycle: pre-conference, observation, post-conference
- Student-centered coaching focused on specific needs
- Data analysis during post-conference
- Goal setting and action steps
Team Meetings
Team meetings are lesson planning sessions that:
- Integrate a focus on academic language development including vocabulary and language functions
- Develop language accommodations for assessments and assignments for students at different language acquisition levels
- Assess student work with a language lens
- Use a protocol to formatively assess student work.
Lesson Studies
During a lesson study, teacher teams:
- Plan a lesson together with clear language and content objectives, learning activities, and formative assessment
- Develop measurement tools to assess the effectiveness of the lesson
- Invite one teacher on the team to teach the lesson while the other team members gather formative assessment data
- Debrief the lesson as a team and make plans for next steps based on the formative assessment data