Key Actions Completion Persons Observable Evidence of Teaching Documentation/Data [What specific activities must take place in the Date(s) Responsible and Learning classroom to implement the strategic initiatives?] [What documentation or data, quantitative and qualitative, [When [Who will make sure [What observable teacher and student will the will be reviewed as evidence that the key action is behaviors in the classroom will key action of the change in teaching and completed demonstrate implementation of the key occur?] learning?] successfully?] action?] Teachers will Students will Informal observation data- August-June design lessons solve problems look fors, reflecting use of Key Action 1: 2018 that develop using manipulatives and teacher concepts from manipulatives or explanations. concrete to pictorial representations. Students will be Teachers will able to explain use a variety of how they solved manipulatives problems to model and manipulatives, represent pictures and numbers. models. Classroom Teachers will Students will be teachers, STAT, make explicit able to explain administrative connections how varying team between models represent the same numbers, equation, pictures, and etc…using symbols) visuals and tools Teachers will such as sentence explicitly stems, math talk. model and teach (explain) their thinking using the visuals and models. Teaching Learning (teacher (student Key Action 2: behaviors): behaviors):
Key Actions [What specific activities must take place in the classroom to implement the strategic initiatives?] Completion Date(s) [When will the key action occur?] Persons Responsible [Who will make sure that the key action is completed successfully?] Observable Evidence of Teaching and Learning [What observable teacher and student behaviors in the classroom will demonstrate implementation of the key action?] Documentation/Data [What documentation or data, quantitative and qualitative, will be reviewed as evidence of the change in teaching and learning?] Key Action 1: August-June 2018 Classroom teachers, STAT, administrative team Teachers will design lessons that develop concepts from concrete to Teachers will use a variety of manipulatives to model and represent numbers. Teachers will make explicit connections between numbers, pictures, and symbols) Teachers will explicitly model and teach (explain) their thinking using the visuals and models. Students will solve problems using manipulatives or pictorial representations. Students will be able to explain how they solved problems manipulatives, pictures and models. Students will be able to explain how varying models represent the same equation, etc…using visuals and tools such as sentence stems, math talk. Informal observation data- look fors, reflecting use of manipulatives and teacher explanations. Key Action 2: Teaching (teacher behaviors): Learning (student behaviors):
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