Looking@Learning ideas:
  • Moderate writing or speaking (in preparation for Spring Testing)
  • Meet with a grade level or dept to look at student work of an ELL
  • Share unit plan ideas
  • Revise and improve unit plans
  • Share or co-plan lessons, instructional strategies . . .
  • Ask for feedback on a lesson or assignment
  • Assessments and rubrics
  • Professional development material
  • Research on best practice
  • Blogs, wikis, forums, on-line learning tools
  • Workshops - share skills, teach new skills to colleagues e.g. IT Art techniques,
  • cooperative games
  • Share student work
  • Create common assessments
  • Moderate common assessments
  • Create common assessments
  • Reflect on student results to guide future learning
  • Collaborative professional development
  • Examine a rubric
  • Discuss progress on student achievement goals
  • Discuss what and how to collect data that would be useful for better knowing students e.g. length of time at SAS, level of English at entry, cultural background, grade level
  • Application of current methodology and
  • Look at assessment data e.g. PSAT, SAT, IB, AP scores, Iowa, DRA, ERB, grades, etc.
  • Share student projects and products e.g. posters, essays, tests, art, performances
  • Share ideas about using technology in teaching
  • Evaluate students' work to find needs
  • Use tuning protocols to make sure assessments achieve their goals
  • Develop a collaborative team work ethic
  • Teachers develop awareness of scope and sequence/continuity and articulation outside of their own grade level or course
  • Review curriculum, courses, resources and textbooks
  • K-12 vs. school based or level specific variety of conversations and collaboration
  • Observation - peer coaching, demo lessons and co-teaching, video lessonsÉ
  • Discovery learning techniques
  • Identify/discuss ways student learn
  • Group analysis of teacher reflections
  • Curriculum mapping Atlas as a tool for analysis
  • Share resources
  • Cross campus conversations blogs, video conferences, face-to-face, Atlas, etc.
  • Share student work
  • Share internet resources