Katrina casselle web based tutorial summary

Katrina Casselle

AET/545

Christine Nortz

October 27, 2014

Observations and their

Importance.

Instructions: Click on the “next’ button on the or touch the screen to navigate

to the next page of the tutorial when you are ready.

So what exactly is it?

A classroom observation is a formal or informal observation of teaching while it is taking place in the classroom or other learning environment.

Conducted by fellow teachers, administrators, or instructional specialist.

Often used to provide teachers with constructive critical feedback aimed at improving their classroom management and instructional techniques.

Classroom

observations

help link

improvement

to positive

outcomes for

both the

teacher and

student.

Teacher

Education

Ongoing

Professional

Development

Curricular

Resources

Evaluation and

Feedback

Teacher

competency in

engaging

classroom

interactions

that impact the

students

learning.

Social and

Academic

Outcomes

for Children

Job

Satisfaction

and Teacher

Retention

Inputs

Teacher CompetenciesOutcomesImportance

Impact of Observations

Teacher Education

Are you following certain standards and

practices?

Professional Development

Necessary to changing teaching practices.

Curricular Resources

Helps in the promotion of practices.

Evaluation and Feedback

Motivates teacher change.

Instructional Objective

It is the instructional goal that upon the completion of the Web-based tutorial on completing and writing classroom observations teachers will strengthen their understanding, ability, and success with proper observation writing and expand opportunities in their teaching.

Text/Audio Narration: Classroom observations are an essential part of a teacher’s educational tools. With the incorporation of

the new national Common Core Standards and classroom standards established by YoutBuild the pressure for teachers to be

successful is overwhelming and creating apprehension. When completing the web tutorial teachers will strengthen their success

in the classroom.

Performance Based

Objective At the completion of this tutorial teachers, teacher

educators, and school personnel will have a

common vision and shared goal about how to

make each classroom successful.

A reliable and valid mechanism needs to be in

place to assess the standing of classrooms.

Teachers will have a clear understanding of what a

clear and concise observation looks like and how

to go about completing them.

Text/Audio Narration: By the end of this tutorial teachers will be able to identify goals of the observation, provide and

accept positive and negative feedback, and complete a clear and concise

written observation.

What do we want for our

teachers?

Quality teaching

Use of best policies

and practices.

Defined goals and

vision.

Create a shared

purpose.

Gaining new ideas

and perspectives.

Text/Audio Narration: What do we want from our teachers: increased quality instruction; visible use of best policies and

practices put in place by leadership; clear defined goals and visions for the classroom and school as a whole; a shared

purpose; ability and willingness to gain new ideas and perspectives.

When to Complete an

Observation. A quality classroom observation can be completed

and written during anytime of the school day. Most

often they should be completed with a teacher has

an opportunity to see a teachable moment. They

can be conducted for shorter or longer periods of

time.

It is important to know how to properly complete

an observation before you begin to observe a

teacher. You may need to quickly review the

criteria and processes required to obtain approval

to complete an observation.

Let’s Observe!

Text/Audio Narration: What do you see? What mistakes have been made? What feedback

would you provide?

What is a classroom observation?

What is the importance?

What does observation feedback provide?

Can this be positive? Negative? Or Both?

What are the two main objectives?

Student/Staff Satisfaction

Ever wonder what your colleagues and students think about your teaching

and classroom management? Are you confident in front of the class?

Are you helpful?

Do you provide daily objectives?

Do you have command of your class?

Do you have the basic knowledge and understanding of your content area?

Text/Audio Narration: This is seen as performance indicators. These focus on the teachers ability meet all of the

standards set forth by the school and leadership.

What to observe.

Class start and end time.

Student treatment.

Posting and discuss of the daily objectives.

Is the teacher holding the attention of all students?

Classroom management.

Classroom environment.

Use of nonverbal behavior.

Use of feedback from students.

Provides real life examples.

Communicates at the level of all students.

Self reflection

One of these is better than the

other.

Text/Audio Narration: poorly written observation with more detail about students than the teacher. What practices is the teacher following? Where is the detail? What about feedback?

Text/Audio Narration: An observation with details and

reflection. Each observation should include and area of

reflection and room for improvement.

Post Observation Feedback

Guidelines Schedule this conference within a week of the

observation.

Review the results from the instruments used. Video

Checklist and forms

Blank sheet observation

○ Not highly recommended

Begin with a positive comment.

Provide honest but constructive feedback

http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/resources/peer/guidelines/feedback/index.html

Text/Audio Narration: Feedback is very important. Click the link to learn more about characteristics of useful feedback.

Mock Observations and

Assessment

Text/Audio Narration: At this point teachers will be expected to do a mock observation of a classroom observation

video of their choosing. They will also be expected to take a ten question assessment of the information learned. The

questions will be scenario based. The expectation is for the teacher to use the information received in the tutorial and

the video that was viewed earlier in the tutorial. If there is a need to go back they can click on the back buttons.

Summary

The need for this tutorial was based on

an analysis completed by the leadership

team at YouthBuild. The tutorial was

designed to teach each teacher the

proper way to complete and observation

and the “why” behind doing so. The

tutorial included activities to reinforce

the need for observations and gauge the

teachers understanding.