Breaking Through to Effective Teaching A Walk-Through Protocol Linking Student Learning and Professional Practice

by Martinez-Miller, Patricia; Cervone, Laureen

• ISBN13: 9781578867363
• ISBN10: 1578867363
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-14
• Publisher: R&L Education

Summary

Breaking Through to Effectice Teaching discusses the Walk-Through protocol, which provides both a process and a tool for inquiry-based professional development, community engagement, and ultimately, student self-direction. It starts with a school's commitment to build an inquiry model that assumes the capacity for extraordinary learning on the part of students, teachers, administrators, and families. This protocol can be employed narrowly-to guide teachers with a passion for biology, for example-or more broadly. Many of the improving schools chose the Walk-Through protocol as a framework for schoolwide professional development that led to exceptional growth in learning and student achievement. This process allows schools to create a community where all members approach learning as an inquiry and are proactive designers of their success. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Patricia Martinez-Miller is one of the founding members of the UCLA School Management Program

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 6
Introduction	p. 9
Why Walk-Throughs?	p. 13
Building on our own best practice	p. 14
Why this is a different approach	p. 17
How the Walk-Through protocol supports success	p. 18
When are schools ready for the Walk-Through protocol?	p. 19
How do administrators participate?	p. 20
Why the Walk-Through protocol works	p. 21
Nuts and Bolts of the Smp Walk-Through Protocol	p. 22
Why a protocol for walking through classrooms?	p. 23
What is the protocol?	p. 24
Walk-Throughs as a Catalyst for School Improvement	p. 43
Building on and sustaining positive change	p. 51
Using Walk-Through Protocols to Sustain a Professional Learning Community	p. 55
The setting	p. 56
The mission and goals	p. 58
Using the protocol to create a community	p. 58
The first six months	p. 60
The second six months	p. 61
An evolving culture	p. 66
Using Walk-Through Protocols to Improve Instruction	p. 69
The setting	p. 70
The Mission and Goals	p. 71
Getting Started	p. 72
After the first year	p. 74
Evidence of Improving Instruction	p. 77
Using Walk-Through Protocols to Unify a District-Wide Culture of Student Achievement	p. 79
The setting	p. 79
The Mission and Goals	p. 82
Using the Walk-Through protocol to enhance inquiry in a professional learning community	p. 83
Getting Started	p. 84
Building capacity throughout the district	p. 87
An evolving tool in an evolving culture	p. 89
Sample, Three-Day Training Agenda	p. 93
Developing Group Norms	p. 97
A Sample Activity for Determining Next Steps	p. 99
About the Authors	p. 101
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