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Goal Setting
-What are some areas with your own practice that you would like to work on this year?
-What is something you want your students to accomplish by the end of the year?
-Is there a novel or concept that you really hope to teach?

1st Quarter Reflection
-What were your successes during the first quarter?
-Was there a lesson or unit that really stood out to you as engaging? What made it so?
-Are there any skills your students are struggling with? What might be holding them back?
-What is a goal you have moving into second quarter?
-How are you feeling with the curriculum? Is there anything you need clarification on or areas that you would like to adjust?

Mid-Year Reflection
-Thinking back on your goals from the beginning of the year, how are you and your students progressing?
-Is there anything that you think needs to be adjusted?
-What supports do you need before the next semester begins?

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Goal Setting
1. What part of the MQI do you find to be the most challenging?

Pre-Observation
2. What area of this lesson would you like me to focus this observation on?
3. What objective will you be trying to accomplish? How will you assess the success of the lesson?

Post-Observation
4. How do you think the lesson went?
5. If you were to make note of changes for next year, what would you include? (add this in your planner or on the lesson plan with a sticky note, so you actually remember to do it!)
6. What are your next steps based on the result of the formative assessment?

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Pre-Observation Questions:
1.  How have you incorporated your students IEP goals/objectives into your lesson?
2.  What are you objectives for the students in this lesson?
3.  Is there a specific student that you want me to observe?

Post-Observation Questions:
1.  Did you meet your objectives for this lesson?
2.  How did the students demonstrate the objective/their learning during the lesson?  How did you show that?
3.  What were your strengths in the lesson?  What is something that you need to improve?

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Pre-Observation Questions:
1. What area's of teaching can I assist you the most?
2. What are you lesson objectives?
3. What aspects of your lesson would you like me to focus on?
4. What teaching strategies will you use in this lesson? What resources will be utilized?
5. Why did you choose these strategies and resources?
6. How will you know if your lesson has achieved the objectives?

Post-Observation Questions:
1. If you were to summarize your lesson from that day, how would you say it went?
2. How do you feel about your classes progress towards your lessons objectives?
3. With the chosen teaching strategies, which ones do you think worked the best for your class?
4. What would you change about your lesson now that it has been taught?
5. Would you like my feedback from what I observed?

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Goal-Setting Conference
1. If you had to pick one or two goals/objectives for your students to achieve by the end of your lesson, what would they be?
2. Is there a particular area that you have been working to improve in that you would like me to focus on when I observe you?
3. Since you are a special area teacher, you meet with a variety of grade levels. How do you find that the goals you set for your students change from grade to grade? Do you build on prior knowledge of skills students should know from years prior? If so, how?

Pre-Observation Conference
1. What prior knowledge are your students expected to have in order to be successful with your lesson? Will you need to frontload any new vocabulary?
2. How does your lesson tie in with the Common Core State Standards? How do you plan on introducing this standard to your students at the beginning of your lesson, and then addressing it again in your lesson closure?
3. In what ways will you use formative and/or summative assessments to ensure that your students were successful with the intended learning?
4. Special Area Teacher - Which assessment techniques do you use with specific grade levels? Do you use certain ones consistently with particular grades, or do you find that they are universal?
5. Do you have opportunities for students to move/talk throughout the lesson?

Post-Observation Conference
1. Now that you have had time to reflect on how the lesson went, what area(s) are you most proud of? Why?
2. What parts of the lesson do you think could be improved for the future? Let's talk about how we could go about making these changes.
3. How do you know whether or not your students were successful with the intended learning? How will you use data to determine their progress?
4. How will you proceed now with the students who show full mastery of the concept, the students who show partial mastery of the concept, and the students who show no mastery of the concept?
5. Is there anything you need from me to feel better supported if you were going to teach this lesson again?

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Goal-Setting Conference:
1.  What are one or two manageable goals that you would like to focus on this year?
2.  What are some benchmarks we can use to find out if you are making progress on your goal?

Pre-Observation Conference:
1.  What standard is your lesson focusing on?  How can we write the standard in a student-friendly manner to share with students?
2.  How are the Standards of Mathematical Practice (that are applicable to this unit) woven into your lesson?
3.  What prior knowledge do your students have on this topic?
4.  Where in the sequence of instruction for this topic/unit does this lesson fall?
5.  Is there anything specific you'd like me to look for as I observe your lesson?

Post-Observation Conference:
1.  Overall, how would you say your lesson went?  What were some strengths you felt occurred during the lesson?  Some weaknesses?
2.  Do you feel like the students met the standard?  What proof do you have to show mastery?
3.  What are your next steps for students who did show mastery, as well as those who may have struggled?

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Pre-Observation Questions:
1)What is your objective for students during this lesson? What would you like them to take away from today?
2)How will students utilize any of the 8 standards of mathematical practice?
3)Is there anthing you would like me to know about prior lessons that connect to this lesson or other steps you have taken to get your students to this objective for today?
Post-Observation Questions:
1)Do you feel students met the objective you outlined for this lesson? How do you know?
2) What are your next steps for instruction?
3)Is there anything you would change in this lesson if you were to teach it again?
4)What can I do to support you in your next steps of instruction?

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Pre-Observation Questions:
1. In this rhyming lesson, what goals and expectations will you have for your students?
2. When I observe, how can I be supportive? Is there a specific skill or students you would like me to observe?
3. What specific portion of the lesson would you like me to observe? Whole group? Small group?
Post-Observation Questions:
1. What were two strengths that stuck out to you in your lesson and one improvement that you wish to work on?
2. Why do you feel this portion of the lesson did not go as you had hoped?
3. How will you use the data/ information you collected today, in order to drive your instruction for tomorrow?
3. How did you provide successful instruction to each developmental learning level group in your class?
4. Are changes needed? If so, why and what specific changes are needed?

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Pre-Observation Questions:
1.  What type of lesson are you teaching today?
2.  What specifically would you like me to look for?

Post-Observation Questions:
1. How do you think the lesson went?
2.  What did not go as planned?  Why?
3.  Would you like me to share what I observed?

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1. Post observation – what do you think went best and why?

2. Post observation – what's something you think you need more improvement on? How can I help you with that?

3. Pre-observation – What are your goals for this lesson?

4. Pre-observation – what will you do if the lesson does not go well?

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Pre-Observation Questions
- How can I support you?

- While observing your lesson, would you like me to specifically observe classroom management, student behavior, classroom expectations, instructional content etc.?

Post-Observation Questions

- What are some of your strengths in this lesson?

- Where would you like to see growth?

How will you follow up with this lesson tomorrow? What will you do for struggling students? What will you do for student extensions?

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I would be very careful asking questions to my mentee.  I feel that many of the questions presented in Cognitive Coaching: A Foundation for Renaissance Schools, by Arthur Costa and Robert Garmston are offensive, therefore I choose my quesitons carefully and tweaked them slightly.

Pre-observation/ goal setting
How can I help you...is their any data I can take for you during the lesson...ie on any students or your own habits...anything I can keep tallys on, etc.

Post observation
Your lesson was great! Here is the data I collected for you.  What does this mean to you?

How do you know when to contact support outside of the classroom and who to contact?  What do you do to get them to listen to you?

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Please title your post with your name.