"Documentation Beats Conversation" New Teacher Mentorship

Danielle Root, Sierra Vista Unified School District

Essential Questions -

  • Do actions always create reactions?

  • How do my actions affect those around me?

  • Why is it important to understand the impact of my actions?



Habits of Learning Taxonomy:

  • Bloom’s:
Analysis, Synthesis and Evaluation
  • Marzano’s Dimensions
Dimension One: Positive Attitude
Dimension Two: Acquisition and Integration of Knowledge

  • Costa & Kallick’s
Persistance – Teachers should always be looking at ways to increase their efficacy – never settling for okay
Metacognition – reflecting on one’s teaching
Gathering Data Through All Senses: collecting and using effect and cause data to guide instruction


Standards:

  • Standard 1: The teacher designs and plans instruction that develops students’ abilities to meet Arizona’s academic standards and the district’s assessment plan.

Objectives:

  1. Focuses instruction on Arizona’s academic standards
  2. Focuses instruction on the school’s and district’s academic standards
  3. Aligns curriculum with the student assessments
  4. Addresses any physical, mental, social, cultural, and community differences among learners
  5. Addresses prior knowledge of individual and group performance
  6. Indicates short and long term curriculum goals
  7. Includes appropriate use of a variety of methods, materials, and resources
  8. Includes learning experiences that are developmentally appropriate for learners
  9. Includes learning experiences that address a variety of cognitive levels
  10. Includes learning experiences that are appropriate for curriculum goals
  11. Includes learning experiences that are based upon principles of effective instruction
  12. Includes learning experiences that accurately represent content
  13. Incorporates appropriate assessment of student progress

Student Activities: Click on the Thinking Tool student log-in link below. Sign in as a student and read the activity description. Click on the title to open the interactive tool and work through the activity.
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Teacher ID is - vquarto

Student ID
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