Connecting Classroom Walkthrough to High Yield Strategies

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Connecting Classroom Walkthrough to High Yield
Strategies

• www.schoolofeducators.com

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Classroom Walkthrough Key Points

• What is Classroom Walkthrough (CWT)?
• A focused version of Management By Wandering
  Around
• Support for administrators in their roles as
  instructional leaders, mentors, and coaches
• A method for collecting data to detect trends and
  patterns in teaching and learning
• A means of providing individual, small group, and
  school-wide reflection
• According to the model, NOT a form of evaluation!

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CWT Step 1
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CWT Step 2
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CWT Step 3
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CWT Step 4
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CWT Step 5
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CWT Step 6
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Classroom Walkthrough (CWT) and High-Yield
Strategies (HYS)

• What areas of need do your CWT's identify for
  your school? - Teaching and Learning (T1 - T4)
• Do your walkthroughs indicate that teachers are
  using higher level Blooms or Marzano's HYS
  consistently, effectively, or with fidelity? -
  Instructional Strategy
• Do your walkthroughs discover students engaged,
  compliant, retreating, or rebellious? -
  Assessment of Learner Engagement
• Do your walkthroughs reveal learning environments
  that support the lesson objective? - Survey of
  Learning Environment

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Factors Influencing Achievement What Works In
Schools by Robert Marzano



1. Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum
2. Challenging Goals and Effective
Feedback 3. Parent and Community
Involvement 4. Safe and
Orderly Environment
5. Collegiality and Professionalism
6. Instructional Strategies 7. Classroom
Management 8. Classroom Curriculum Design
9. Home Environment 10. Learned Intelligence/
Background Knowledge 11. Motivation
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Classroom Walkthrough 10th Grade English Class
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Factors Influencing Achievement
6. Instructional Strategies 7.
Classroom Management 8. Classroom Curriculum
Design
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At your table rank these instructional strategies
according to their impact on student achievement

• Identifying Similarities and Differences
• Summarizing and Note Taking
• Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition
• Homework and Practice
• Nonlinguistic Representations
• Cooperative Learning
• Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback
• Generating and Testing Hypotheses
• Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers

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High Yield Strategies

• All nine strategies have a STRONG effect on
  student achievement! They are all important and
  greatly influence the level of student
  achievement in your classroom - when used in the
  appropriate content and situation!
• Here are the High Yield Strategy in ranking
  order

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Works
Classroom Instruction That
Percentile Gain 45 34 29 28 27

• Identifying Similarities and Differences
• Summarizing and Note Taking
• Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition
• Homework and Practice
• Nonlinguistic Representations

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Works
Classroom Instruction That

• Cooperative Learning
• Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback
• Generating and Testing Hypotheses
• Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers

Percentile Gain 27 23 25 22
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High-Yield Strategies

• Identifying Similarities and Differences
• Summarizing and Note Taking
• Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition
• Homework and Practice
• Nonlinguistic Representations
• Cooperative Learning
• Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback
• Generating and Testing Hypotheses
• Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers

Not a Checklist