Looking Together at Student Work (the series on school reform) - Softcover

Blythe, Tina; Allen, David; Powell, Barbara Schieffelin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807756466 ISBN 13: 9780807756461

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2015

Synopsis

This updated third edition provides teachers and administrators with strategies and resources for examining and discussing student work, such as essays, math problems, projects, artwork, and more. The authors describe two ways of looking together at student work―The Tuning Protocol and The Collaborative Assessment Conference―including how to choose work to present and examples of groups using each protocol. This new edition also offers suggestions for addressing some of the key challenges that emerge when groups first begin to share and discuss student work, as well as guidance for using protocols once groups have progressed beyond the initial stages. This book will be useful to teachers, administrators, teacher educators, coaches, and others who are involved in the work of improving teaching and learning for all students.

New for the Third Edition:

• The addition of The Microlab Protocol, a relatively quick and easy way to introduce groups to protocol-guided conversation.
• Facilitation strategies and more detailed notes for presenters about how to select work and prepare for their roles.
• Updated examples and a new case focused on a school's use of protocols to develop teachers' understanding and application of the Common Core State Standards.
• Current research on the effectiveness of practices that involve the collaborative examination of student work.

About this title

Book Description

“This is a book that is at once brief, elegant, and useful. . . . These authors know as well as anyone on Earth that the practice of collectively accountable teaching is messy, but they also appreciate the fact that people in the midst of it nonetheless need some kind of map.” —From the Foreword to the third edition by Joseph P. McDonald, New York University

“This (is a) probing and practical guide. . . . I commend these practices of looking together at student work as powerful resources not just for the technical but for the cultural enterprise of education.”
—From the Foreword to the second edition by David N. Perkins, Harvard Graduate School of Education

"This excellent book will be very helpful to teachers, school leaders, and parents who want to improve teaching and learning, and to researchers who want to understand school improvement."
—David Cohen, John Dewey Collegiate Professor, School of Education, University of Michigan

From the Author

Tina Blythe develops and facilitates online professional development courses for Harvard Project Zero and consults for schools, districts, and organizations both nationally and internationally. David Allen is an assistant professor at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. Barbara Schieffelin Powell is a national and international educational consultant in curriculum development, teacher education, and evaluation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0807756466
• ISBN 13: 9780807756461
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 96