___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Guiding Questions In a PLC… How is productive conversation stifled? Why do we ask questions? What types of questions do we ask? What kinds of discussions do we have? ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/100000/00000/5000/800/105823/105823.strip.gif Difficult conversations? NAH, COULDN’T BE! ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools in partnership with the School District of Palm Beach County, FL ___________________________________ Turn and Talk What can/should happen to revive the conversation? ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ http://kimberlygleasoncoaching.com/wpcontent/uploads/2012/06/iStock_000007274585XSmall.jpg ___________________________________ Who’s in charge here? ASK DON’T TELL ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Types of facilitators How does the facilitator’s primary role in the school impact discussions? Or does it? ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools in partnership with the School District of Palm Beach County, FL ___________________________________ Role of the Facilitator To ask questions To maintain discussion focus on the meeting’s goals To recap the outcomes of the meeting ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Primarily, the facilitator gets productive conversation going, especially when it stalls. ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Who has the answer? http://tristarkarate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/askingquestions.jpg ME OR WE ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Leading Questions Example: Do you progress monitor every two weeks? ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Example: Do you group your students according to ability? ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools in partnership with the School District of Palm Beach County, FL ___________________________________ Clarifying Questions Example: How much time do you expect the intervention to take? Example: What resources have you used to teach this unit in the past? ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Probing Questions Example: How will you determine progress toward this standard? Example: How might you sequence your lessons for this unit? Why? ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ + Clarifying Questions ___________________________________ Probing Questions ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Facilitating Questions ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools in partnership with the School District of Palm Beach County, FL ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ http://www.mfaa.msde.state.md.us/source/images/relationship.gif What’s the point? FIND A FOCUS ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Standards ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Instruction ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools in partnership with the School District of Palm Beach County, FL ___________________________________ Assessment ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ What’s still missing? ___________________________________ ALL ABOUT YOU http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoon ists/gwa/lowres/gwan687l.jpg ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ http://hofstetterlandscaping.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/questions.jpg ___________________________________ Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools in partnership with the School District of Palm Beach County, FL ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ http://2.bp.blogspot.com/wSrfrqLDRJE/T2_Rf1OPiMI/AAAAAAAAANc/lcspAFfky_o/s1600 /group+questions+copy.jpg Is the puzzle complete? TAKE AWAY/THROW AWAY ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools in partnership with the School District of Palm Beach County, FL Facilitative Question Stem Exemplars Bobbie Lynch, bjlynch@wsfcs.k12.nc.us; Kathryn Pritchard, kepritchard@wsfcs.k12.nc.us Standards What should the students be able to do after mastering this standard? How might you incorporate this standard into the student’s previous learning? In what sequence will you instruct? What is the learning target(s)? What parts of the standard can be expanded into the real-world? In looking back at the standards/cluster/strand, how intimately are the students supposed to know this material? What concepts do students need to think about more deeply? Instruction In what sequence will you instruct these concepts? How do you predict this lesson will go? o What can you do to positively change those predictions? What is the key vocabulary in this standard that all students need to know? How might students apply this new knowledge? What other ways can you think to…? Have our teaching strategies and formative assessment scaffolded for the rigor required by the standard? How are we connecting student thinking to novel/real-world situations? How will we provide appropriate levels of instruction based on student need? When you think about this standard, what strategies will be effective? How can we break the standard up into small, more manageable parts, with structured direction/focus for each part? How will we get each student to proficiency? Assessment How would you use this information/data to___________? (change instruction, reteach, form instruction, etc.) What are some of the strategies that you have used that helped your students be successful on this assessment? How do you know? If data demonstrates that a student is experiencing difficulty with this standard, how might your instruction need to change? What might success on this standard look like? What might be the evidence that you will collect that demonstrates student progress on this standard? What are some specific patterns or trends that seem to be emerging in our assessment data? What is the evidence that supports the student’s current level of mastery? When you consider the sequence that you have established for teaching this standard, what are the crucial checkpoints where you must know if a student has mastered one skill in order to move onto another? Looking at the Learning Targets we developed for this standard, what evidence can we collect that will demonstrate who has met the target? Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools in partnership with the School District of Palm Beach County, FL