Effective Management of
Teaching and Learning
Workshop Objective
• This workshop will focus on roles and
responsibilities of Middle Managers:
– Vice principal
– Heads of department
– Grade coordinators
– Senior teachers
• Monitoring the teaching and learning
practices of teachers in schools.
Until we can manage TIME, we can manage
nothing else.
—Peter F. Drucker (1954)
Introduction
• No single individual is more important to
initiate and sustain improvement in
students’ performance than the
instructional leader.
• The instructional leader must create a
culture that fosters learning and including
all stakeholders in the learning process.
Instructional Leader
• Maintain high visibility, interact daily with
teachers and students to establish and
maintain rapport.
• Forging meaningful relationship is
important in fostering the developmental
needs for teachers, students and staff.
Middle Managers in Education
• Vice Principals in charge of Programmes
– Academic focus (Teaching & Learning)
• Department Heads
• Grade Coordinators
• Senior Teachers
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Plan and conduct lessons
Behaviour Management
Classroom Management
Teacher Appraisal
Questions to Consider
• What do you look for when you’re appraising
teachers?
• How should the teacher planning tied into
student achievement as it relates to obtaining
the national goals?
• You want your teachers to reach the children,
how do your teachers do it?
– How will you assess to see if this is being
accomplishment?
– What evidence will you use?
Types of Instructional Observation
• Awareness/Focus Walk (Teacher
Professionalism)
– Professional Development
• Instructional Strategies (Teaching Skills)
– Successful Teaching Strategies
• Monitoring Progress (Teaching Skills)
– Student Assessment
• Content Knowledge (Teacher Professionalism)
– Knowledge of subject matter
Awareness/Focus Walk
• Instructional Strategies
– Differentiation--Discussion, Demonstration,
Modeling
• Content Knowledge
– Connects new ideas, skills, and concepts
to previous or future learning
• Monitoring Progress
– Questions are interspersed throughout the
lesson
Instructional Strategies
• Middle Managers must monitor each teacher to see
if they:
– Created a lesson plan
– Start class on time
– Communicate lesson objective to students
– Creates a climate conducive to the learning
process
– Establish rituals and routines
– Maximise instructional time
– Close out the lesson
Monitoring Progress (Assessment)
The systematic observation and evaluation of student
performance:
• Appropriate tasks (quizzes, tests,
homework, etc.) are assigned to check for
understanding and mastery
• Teacher quietly conferences with individual
students about their work
• Teacher checks for understanding using
two way communication methods
Assessment
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continuous process
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provides feedback to improve
student achievement
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may be formative or
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provides a means of
collecting evidence of student
mastery of the content
standards
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summative
provides a photo album of
student progress through
which we can observe a
student’s growth
vs.
Grading
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a means of assigning
numerical or alphabetical
grade to a student’s work
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may be formative or
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often represented as an
average
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may not represent an adequate
picture of a student’s growth or
progress toward the learning
goals
summative
Characteristics of Exemplary Assessment
• Emphasizes learning process as well as product
• Requires active construction of meaning
• Assesses interdisciplinary and cross disciplinary
skills
• Helps students self monitor
• Gives specific expectations for students
• Emphasizes the application and use of
knowledge
• Has meaning and relevance to students
• Emphasizes complex skills
• Makes standards public and known in advance
Content Knowledge
• Expound on topic of discussion
• Builds for transfer by using familiar events
or experiences to link learning to real life
• Activates prior knowledge to introduce
concepts
• Points out similarities to strengthen
learning and differences to avoid
confusion
Monitoring Instruction Cont’d
• Check weekly lesson plans to ensure the
curriculum is being covered
• Middle managers conduct “Focus Walks” and
create PD around those walks
• Daily classroom observations using Successful
Teaching Practices
– Upon arriving in a class, see if the lesson objective is
written on the board
– Listen to the questions/interactions between teacher
and students
Standard Exercise
• Teachers are committed to children in their
care and effectively manage diversity to
promote inclusiveness in the learning
process.
• What are some of those performance
indicators do you look for to demonstrate
teacher commitment?
The Process of Instructional Planning
Traditional Practice
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Select a topic from the curriculum
Design instructional activities
Design and give an assessment
Give grade or feedback
Move onto new topic
Standards-based Practice
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Select standards from among those
students need to know
Design an assessment through
which students will have an
opportunity to demonstrate those
things
Decide what opportunities students
will need to learn those things and
plan appropriate instruction to
assure that each student has
adequate opportunities to learn
Use data from assessment to give
feedback, reteach or move to next
level
Teacher Appraisal
• The responsibility to evaluate teachers
does NOT rest solely with their
administrators.
• Teachers themselves have a responsibility
to evaluate their own practice
• Many are seeking innovative ways to
reflect on their teaching (middle managers
need to encourage this type of innovation)
Teacher Performance Appraisal
Part One
• Planning for Student Learning (PSL)
• Teaching for Student Learning (TSL)
• Creating Classroom Environment for
Student Learning (ESL)
Teacher Performance Appraisal
Cont’d
Part Two
• Personal Characteristics (PC)
• Professional Development (PD)
• Interpersonal Skills (IS)
Teacher Performance Appraisal
Cont’d
Part Three
• Leadership and Management (LM)
Guiding Principles of Teaching
Standards
1. Teachers know the subject(s) that they teach
2. Teachers know how to teach the subject(s) for
which they are responsible
3. Teachers are committed to children in their
care and effectively manage diversity to
promote inclusiveness in the learning process
4. Teachers sharpen their professional skills
5. Teachers interact with parents and the
community
6. Teachers conduct themselves in a manner that
will uplift the profession
Questions for You
• How do you know that your teachers really
know their students?
– What are some of the indicators that you look
for to show that the teacher knows his/her
class?
• How do you explain a situation where a
teachers has been appraised as an A or B,
but the students are D and E…how do you
explain that?
QUESTIONS
THANK YOU
Dr. Wayne Campbell
Deputy CEO/Registrar
Jamaica Teaching Council
wayne.campbell@moey.gov.jm
948-7416 Office
855-1360 Cell