eq-ees-teacher-evaluation

Standard 4: Critical Thinking
Quality Indicator 3: Cooperative, small group and independent learning
Employs individual and cooperative learning activities
to promote critical thinking skills.
Growth Guide 4.3 – Teach Like a Champion Techniques
Emerging Developing Proficient Distinguished
4E3) The emerging teacher…
4D3) The developing teacher also… 4P3) The proficient teacher 4S3) The distinguished teacher
also…
also…
Uses a variety of learning
situations, such as independent,
small group and whole class to
enhance individual and collective
critical thinking skills.
Effectively combines
flexible and varied
independent, cooperative
and whole-class learning
situations and applies
grouping strategies to
maximize student
understanding and learning.
Lemov, Doug. (2010) Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that put students on the path to college. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Models and/or shares with
others the effective use of
flexible and varied
independent, collaborative
and whole-class learning
situations.
Score = 0 1 2 3 4
Technique7: 4 Ms
5 6 7
Teacher
A great lesson objective and therefore a great lesson should be Manageable, Measureable, Made first, and Most important on the path to college (Todd McKee).
Student
Great objectives are manageable (has size & scope to be taught in a single lesson);
measureable (success can be determined by the end of class); made first (guides activities); (Not executed live in front of students; it’s the preparation done before teaching. This
and most important (focuses on the most essential learning there is).
technique will result in student learning driven by useful, effective lesson objectives)
Technique 10: Double Plan
It’s as important to plan for what students will be doing during each phase of a lesson as it is to plan for what you will be doing and saying.
Teacher
Too often, planning only focusing on what the teacher is doing and fails to account for what
the student does. Thinking and planning for what students will do allows you to see your
lesson through their eyes and keeps them productively engaged. Use a T-Chart with “You”
on one side and “Them” on the other
Student
What students will do during the lesson? Taking notes? Writing Summaries?
Technique 11: Draw the Map
Control the physical environment to support the specific lesson goal for the day
Teacher
Student
Include space planning as a part of lesson planning. Think about the way you want students’ Environment around them supports learning; walls communicate information and
bodies engaged in a lesson as well as their minds. You have to be able to get anywhere in the motivation about learning
room and within a foot of any student at all times. The walls in the rooms should avoid
overstimulation and distraction; walls should be functional not just decorative and
motivating