Use professional learning communities to review student work and give teachers feedback¶

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Description¶

A strategy in which teachers meet regularly in small interdisciplinary groups to analyze the quality of student work, compare expectations, and share lessons about which strategies are effective. The report states "Utilizing professional learning communities in this way proved to be the most effective means to provide teachers with feedback," creating a nonthreatening setting where teachers' impact on student learning could be assessed. Administrators supplemented this with regular non-evaluative classroom observations and a common rubric for assessing student writing.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• A common process, common vocabulary, and common assessment across classrooms so student work can be compared meaningfully

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• high school teachers and their students

Target Learning Goals¶

• consistent literacy instruction
• evidence of student learning

Related Strategies¶

• Teach literacy skills in every classroom across all content areas with common rubrics
• Reflection with Others
• Peer Observation
• Peer Coaching
• Critique Protocol
• Critical Friends Protocol

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Noguera, P. (2017). Taking deeper learning to scale. Palo Alto, CA: Learning Policy Institute. https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/deeper-learning-to-scale