Topic Progress:

UNPACKING ESSENTIAL FUNCTION 3: INTENTIONALLY ACT AND ANALYZE AGAIN

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”

Creating an Instructional Plan

How will you know if your strategies are working?  What will it look like?  What will you see adults doing?  What will you see students doing?  What will you see in student work?

Effective instructional plans contain the following components.

Learning Goal

Outlines what students should ultimately know and do after you implement an instructional change.

Evidence of Learning

The student work/product/output that tells you what students know, don’t know, and can do.

Method for Examining Instruction

Means you will use to reflect, adjust, and hold yourselves accountable.

Impact Analysis

Collecting and reviewing student evidence at regular intervals as you implement the instructional change.

Instructional Change

What teachers will change to help students accomplish the learning goal. Consider an effective instructional practice or strategy (especially MMD practices and strategies, such as DACL, Metacognition, and/or CFA).

Check out other MMD instructional practices.

Developing Assessment Capable Learners (https://www.moedu-sail.org/courses/developing-assessment-capable-learners)

Metacognition (https://www.moedu-sail.org/courses/metacognition/)

Common Formative Assessment (https://www.moedu-sail.org/courses/common-formative-assessment)

Instructional Plan Implementation

Instructional Plans outline not only what students will do, but also what adults will do to affect learning.  Therefore, part of the instructional plan should include strategies for ensuring the instruction was delivered as intended.

  • Identify the specific teacher behavior(s) that will mean the practice/strategy was implemented with fidelity.
  • Develop descriptors of what should be observable.
  • Determine how data will be collected on these observable descriptors.
  • Identify student behaviors that demonstrate acquisition of the learning target.
  • Determine whether the data supports a cause/effect relationship between the practice/strategy and the results.

Create an Instructional Plan

Using your data and the prioritized list of issues you created in Step 2, create an Instructional Plan.

  1. Learning Goal – Select one issue you believe will have the greatest impact on student learning.
  2. Evidence of Learning – What student work/product/output tells you what students know, don’t know, and can do?
  3. Instructional Change – Select instructional practices/strategies you believe will address this issue and outline a plan of action.
  4. Method for Examining Instruction – Identify student data that you could collect to demonstrate acquisition of the learning target.
  5. Impact Analysis – Identify ways you will know if the instruction was delivered with fidelity.

Collaborating to Improve Instruction

Select one or two of the following methods for examining instruction and watch the video(s).

Use the following suggestions to dig deeper into the method(s) you selected.

  1. Make a list of the steps needed to design and implement this method.
  2. Use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast this method with one that you are currently using or one you have used in the past.
  3. List at least 5 benefits of using this method to examine instruction.
  4. Create a graphic organizer or visual representation to describe how this method might be applied in or adapted to your setting.
  5. Create a t-chart.  List roadblocks you might encounter when implementing this method on one side and ways to overcome them on the other side.
  6. Brainstorm ways you might involve students as you implement the method for examining instruction.

For more information on improving instruction see the School-Based Implementation Coaching Materials (https://www.moedu-sail.org/school-based-implementation-coaching-materials/).