Instructional Commons: record and disseminate top teachers' full-year instruction for peer-to-peer professional use¶

Strategy · All strategies
Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The brief proposes identifying the best teacher for a given subject and grade, paying them to have "their entire year of teaching for that subject recorded," then digitizing the videos and supporting materials — lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes — for other teachers to use. It builds on earlier lesson-plan repositories and offers "a peer-to-peer training model, the opportunity for teachers to observe high quality instruction in depth," plus a common standard for professional development at relatively modest cost.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Reliable estimates of teacher performance, drawing on student-level standardized test data over multiple cohorts plus assessments from principals, peers and other experts

Constraints¶

• Where supply of high-need students outstrips the supply of high-impact teachers, this second option is positioned as an alternative to incentive-based class expansion

Target Learners¶

• K-12 teachers seeking to improve instructional quality, and their students

Target Learning Goals¶

• Raising the pace of learning by improving quality of instruction

Related Strategies¶

• Facilitate knowledge sharing between organizations experienced with evidence-based strategies and organizations seeking to use them

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Margaret “Macke” Raymond, Ph.D. (2022). The Pace of Recovery after COVID. Center for Research on Education Outcomes, Hoover Institution. https://www.eduref.org/