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Students use desmos to discover properties of function transformations, etc

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Teaching students to circumnavigate vocabulary and/or grammar deficiencies and create meaning in World Language class.

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Students were actively thinking about their own written pieces as they revise. There was ample evidence of communication because the revision allowed for more efficient means of conveying the information.

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Mr. Melvin's economic lesson was such a creative way to show students first-hand how inflation works. It was so much fun! And I walked away with a tube of bubbles... :)

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Students were communicating to create a presentation. Students were in small groups of 4 to 5 with communication within the group at the group level and within pairs in the groups.

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In order to learn the content, students had to think critically about the topic in a way outside their current perspectives.

Students also had to read a follow-up article to research and synthesize the new information with what they had learned during the lesson.

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ATL-1 and ATL-5

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ATT-2, ATT-5, and ATT-6

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Thinking skills were evident in this lesson as students worked out why items were costing more when they had more money to spend.

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Students create a function model given certain real data and present to class

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Students were asked to critique a film in a foreign language. Ample evidence of collaboration between students and teacher. Students had varying degrees of critiques, so differentiation was a given. Teacher provided the differentiation seemlessly. The review of the critiques was in itself a formative assessment.

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Curriculum is designed around formative and summative assessments.

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I was really impressed with the work done in the math class I observed. Mr. Campbell's students understood and grappled with the topic in a deep manner.

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Students were taught about political perspectives that are common among a particular region and identity, but infrequently seen in their home culture.

Students learned about the identity and history of a particular region, and how that identity informed historical actions taken and ramifications that persist to this day.

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Students were focused on the conceptual understanding of inflation as they learned first-hand how it impacts the cost of things. Students were engaged and immersed in the lesson, purchasing different items with their play money and experiencing the effects of inflation.

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Students were working in groups, dividing up tasks and working towards a completed presentation to perform.

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The teacher focused on conceptual understanding which impacted the thinking skills of the students.

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Modeled inflation with a game and asked students when is the dollar worth the most.

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Students had to formulate and explain their own examples while working in small groups of 2-3.

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ATL1, ATL2

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Students were asked to manipulate data involving interest rates in order to determine the impact of the data. Students were required to work in teams to determine and explain their own examples.

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ATT4, ATT3, ATT1

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Excellent student engagement and critical thinking!

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Students read native speaker comments on the video then used what they learned to write a blog as if they were a contestant in the show.

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Using hypothetical situations to navigate their understanding of the context of the contestants. Critical thinking to understand not only the language but also the social organizations and human manipulation at play.

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Students were asked to analyze and compare a scene from a show that has an American equivalent. They had to analyze the role/influence of media, social pressure/roles in dating as well as cultural comparisons.

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The activity observed was clearly designed to develop multiple ATLs at once.

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The teacher's learning walk hit all approaches to learning with one activity. Bravo!

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The teacher made great use of teamwork and collaboration to develop communication skills, social skills and self management skills. The students were teaching each other about the mini topic each group researched.

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Thinking Skills and Communication Skills

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Thinking Skills and Communication Skills

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The students worked individually in an effort to solve a problem. However, they also communicated to the class how the attempted to solve the problem and why they chose that method. It was a good combination of individual thinking and communicating those thoughts to the others after they completed the work.

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Teacher Focused on Conceptual Understanding

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Teacher Focused on Conceptual Understanding

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The students were grappling with a difficult concept and attempting to solve a problem based on the concept. The teacher did a terrific job of giving individual attention to all students and relating the current topic/concept to something the students had done prior in an effort to grasp this new concept.