Week+4


 * Based on your reading as well as reflection and input from your teammates, add instructional strategies to the Suggestions for Improvement section of your Differentiated Classroom Observation Template which you will submit by the end of Week 5.

Share ideas about how to incorporate the strategies from the differentiation observation template to make each of our lessons more effective for all learners (think UDL). From there, we are to add to our templates based on this feedback, and then also consider concepts addressed through our team and class discussion to appropriately identify instructional strategies to improve the lesson observed for all learners.**

~The teacher I observed seemed to do most of the directing, rather than facilitating students to become independent learners. Her voice was constantly on, and she held their hand rather tightly. I would recommend that she begin to release control by allowing think-pair-shares at the very least. In the cause-effect lesson, each student could have been tasked with thinking of a cause and effect sentence with another student in order to collaborate. Knowing the students' strengths, she could have assigned the more creative leader type to start the sentence with a causal phrase, and the other student with finishing the sentence with an appropriate effect. Strategies I would like to add to the template for the specific purpose of live lessons in our school include: Teacher uses "chat" effectively. Teacher uses breakout rooms (this one did not). Teacher supported the effective use of the "talk/mic" feature. Teacher used webcam for appropriate use. Teacher gives appropriate wait time. Teacher uses the virtual white board for interactive, differentiated use. ~Teresa