Math Coaching, Gateway to Success The One Thing You Need to Know Ellen Duffy Janet Bryson

Math Coaching, Gateway to Success

The One Thing You Need to Know

Ellen Duffy

Janet Brysonhttp://taselm.fullerton.edu/

TASEL-M: Teachers Assisting Students to Excel in Learning Mathematics

NSF funded grant to Cal State Fullerton and Orange County Dept.

of Education to 4 underperforming high schools and their feeder

middle and continuation high schools.

Paradigm: Focus on Learning as informed by Data

Model:

Cognitive Coaching on Best Practice

Teacher Collaboration (PLC)

Improved Pedagogical Content

The One Thing You Need To Know

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TTeam: Accountable PLC

Honor the TIME it takes to implement change.

Time: Trust the Process

Teacher Buy-in: Administration Clarity

Start with the Singers Go Slow to Go Fast Focus on one element 10% change/year Start where they are: survey,

identify & build choices

Time: Share & Reflect

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."

– Marian Wright Edelman

1. Where will you start?2. How will you strengthen your trust in the

process so that you can persevere with patience?

3. How will you measure the long-term change?

Relationships begin and develop through Trust

Build relationships for collaboration and growth.

“Teachers need to know you care before they care what you know.”

We Trust the Known

“The best teacher is the one who suggests, rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”

– Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Remember Who You Are Teacher’s Coach fix-it person evaluator

Define your sandbox. Who decides what?

Beware the precedent: establish a role you can live with

You wear two hats: coach and PLC facilitator. Neither is sufficient.

What do you need to do to make your role clearer to yourself and those you work with?

Getting to Know You

Name: _________________ School: ___________________Ph. #: ( )____________ email: ____________________I teach:My teaching strengths are:I need the most help with:I’d be willing to share my expertise on:The best time for you to talk to or work with me is:My favorite snack is: ____________ beverage

is:___________Besides teaching, my other passion(s) is (are):

Getting to Know Your School

I. In order to get a clearer picture of the Orange cluster, please answer the following questions as you reflect on your experience in your school:

1. List 4 things that are important to know about your students.2. What would be helpful for Marty and Janet to know about your

school?3. What are you excited about at your school?4. What would be helpful for you to know about data and

collaborative inquiry?5. What data do you want to look at to assess your students’

progress?6. What are you already doing or have you planned to do to improve

the mathematics in your room? School? Cluster?7. What are the next steps we should take?

II. Please rank the following training needs in order of personal priorities:1 represents most urgent; 7 least urgentIncrease student participation______ Group work training ________Technology training in _____________ ______Writing in mathematics ______ Manipulatives ______Lesson planning in a Block schedule ______ Other:_____________

Getting to Know Your School

III. Please mark the following in terms of meeting time availability and preference:P: preferred A: available N: possible, but not preferable X: No can do

After school: Monday ______After school: Tuesday ______After school: Wednesday ______After school: Thursday ______After school: Friday ______

Saturday morning ______Saturday afternoon ______Saturday full day______

During school pull-out ______

What things should every math classroom include? Every math student do? Every math teacher do?

By the end of the first semester, what chapter have you completed? ________ By the end of the year, what chapter have you completed? ___________

What projects or other unique assessments/ experiences do your students do? I would like help designing a lesson on the following topics:

Build the team with Trust

“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and let him know that you trust him.”

-Booker T. Washington

Identify the leaders and your future replacement; begin by building a deep foundation with a few.

Develop relationships with district, school administration and support staff.

Relationships: Trust develops Respect

"Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what

they want to achieve." – Tom Landry

Protocols must be taught: Norms Safety in Structure

The Seven Norms of Collaboration

1. Pausing 2. Paraphrasing3. Probing for specificity4. Putting ideas on the table 5. Paying attention to self and others6. Presuming positive intentions 7. Pursuing a balance between advocacy

and inquiry

How will the team choose a norm to focus on?

Unity of Purpose

In essentials, Unity; in non-essentials, Diversity;

in all things, Charity.

Trust Unity of Purpose to Deliver Results

“Where there is unity there is always victory.”

-Publilius Syrus

Vision/Mission– Who do we want to be and what’s our purpose?

Implementation-- Common Agreement built over time.

1. On a scale of 1 to 5, how unified is your team about its purpose?

2. How might you build unity?

Orange High School Common Agreement 2005

During our summer trainings, we met to find even better ways to teach your student mathematics and to improve our learning community. One of our goals is to be consistent within our department in our classroom tests and expectations. A second goal is to better communicate with the parents of our students. We are looking forward to meeting you at our Back to School Night, Wednesday, October 5th. We hope the following information will be useful for you and your student as we—teachers, parents and students—partner together for excellence in learning mathematics!

Required MaterialsAll math students are required to bring to class, every day, the following:1 notebook with lined paper, Pencil(s) and eraser, Textbook

Grading ScaleSemester Grades are Cumulative Your child’s letter grade will be given according to the following percentages:Algebra (1, 1A, 1B), Honors classesGeometry, and CalculusAlgebra II, and Pre-Calculus98 – 100 A+ 92 – 97 A 92 – 10090 – 91 A- 90 – 9188 – 89 B+ 88 – 8982 – 87 B 82 – 8780 – 81 B- 80 – 8178 – 79 C+ 78 – 7970 – 77 C 72 – 7768 – 69 C- 70 – 7166 – 67 D+ 68 – 6958 – 65 D 62 – 67 56 – 57 D- 60 –61 55 and below F 59 and below

Homework PolicyAll students should expect to receive homework on most days. All necessary work must be shown, and all assignments are expected to be

done on time.

Testing PolicyEach course offered at Orange will use similar assessments and grading procedures. All tests will require work to be shown to receive credit.

Teachers will allow calculators to be used based on the content and standards being tested. Each teacher will have their own policy for low-test scores. The classroom teacher will decide on one of the following policies: to replace a score, drop a score, retake the test, or rewrite/rework the problems missed for partial credit.

Classwork PolicyAll students are expected to actively engage in all classroom activities. Classwork may include content area reading assignments, content area

writing assignments, warm-ups, notebook checks, groupwork, participation and other in-class activities.

Grade WeightsYour child’s grades will be determined by the following grading categories: Algebra (1, 1A, 1B) Geometry and higherHomework: 20% 20%Quizzes: 15% 10%Tests: 40% 45%Class work: 25% 25%

Unity of Lesson Design Goal: Diversity of Style

Lesson Design GoalThe lesson will implement strategies to:

1. engage students within the lesson2. check for understanding within the

lesson3. ask effective questions to engage and

monitor student learning.

Does your team have a common vision of an effective lesson?

Unity of Coaching Goal: Diversity of Model

Pre-conference, observation, post-conference coaching model

Facilitating peer observations Co-teaching model

Support: Who Ya Gonna Call?

Support: We’re better together.

"We could all use a little coaching. When you're playing the game, it's

hard to think of everything."-Jim Rohn

Support: Trust your Partners

Build your support team: Brainstorm Buddy Resource Guru Substitute Sage Empathetic Ear / Safe place to vent Friend Communication Coach Publishing Partner Laugh Lender

Next to each role, put the name of someone you trust to support you.

Team: Trust the PLC

No one of us alone is as smart as all of us together.

Teachers and coaches team together to incorporate daily high quality teaching through lesson design and pedagogical content knowledge conversations. They hold each other accountable with goals that focus on and measure student learning.

Team: Trust & Build“Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence

on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.” -Vince Lombardy

How Cohesive Teams Behave: They TRUST one another They ENGAGE IN UNFILTERED CONFLICT around

ideas. They COMMIT to decisions and plans of action. They HOLD ONE ANOTHER ACCOUNTABLE for

delivering against the plans. They FOCUS on the achievement of the collective

goals. From The Five Dysfunctions of Team by Patrick Lencioni

Teams Trust the Data

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the

experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”

-Douglas Adams

Let the data speak

Team accountability motivates professional growth

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