Monday, February 22, 2010

Problem Of Practice Highlights

Directly observable
Striving to improve
Common understanding of effective practice
A POP is something you care about, that makes a difference in student learning
Focuses on the instructional core
Focuses on questions, task, talk, etc.
Data, dialogue, current work
Need time, dialogue, data to develop one
Sticky notes
Strengths & weaknesses
Something already working on to improve, but concerned about
A POP is not an implementation audit
A POP is a focus for the Network Learning
A POP needs time to "simmer" (reflect/pause)
Needs to be refined, revised (reiterative) and in plain language

Add additional thoughts as you finish reading Chapter 5:

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