INSTRUCTIONAL LEARNING CYCLE:

Overview

Office of Education Improvement and Innovation

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course you will:

Be familiar with the phases of the Instructional Learning Cycle.

Be able to successfully implement the phases of the Instructional Learning Cycle within a team in your building.

Outline

Overview

Benefits

Requirements

Effective Instruction

Students understand

and participate

Teachers use examples and good explanations

Students are proficient in standards

Students perform well on tests

Homework practice matched the lesson

Teacher is prepared

Effective Instruction

Assessment

Learning Targets

Instructional Strategies

Alignment of Instructional Components

Why did they do so poorly?

I taught all of the concepts

Learning Targets Assessment

Assessment

Learning Targets

Instructional Strategies

Alignment of Instructional Components

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Effective Instruction and the Instructional Learning Cycle

How do you align the components?

How do you know when what you’ve planned is working and when you should make changes?

Is there a repeatable process that you can use to help plan instruction?

Effective Instruction and the Instructional Learning Cycle

Effective Instruction and the Instructional Learning Cycle

ILC is NOT . . . ILC is . . .

A one time event

A document or report

Ensuring the perfect lesson or unit

Ongoing, iterative process

Based on theory of regular dialogue around implementation and impact

Bird’s Eye View of the ILC

Bird’s Eye View of the ILC

Why the ILC?

Provides a structure for using data to inform

instruction

Systematizes monitoring of impact of instruction

Identifies which students are on track and which

aren’t

Uses PLC model for ongoing teacher PD

Makes instructional practices visible and

transparent

PLC’s

PLC

Structured way for teachers to talk

Promote actions needed

Defined structure in ILC

The ILC in MI Excel Schools

Requirement #7 Promote the continuous use of student data (such as formative, interim, and summative assessment data and student work) to inform and differentiate instruction to meet academic needs of individual students.

The ILC in MI Excel Schools

Gold Standard for Implementation

Collaborative team meetings

Identification of learning targets, state standards and common assessments

Identification and alignment of the instructional strategy with the instructional plan

Implementation of a common instructional plan

Collection and analysis of student impact data

Collection and analysis of implementation data

Reflection and next steps

Conclusion

Overview

Benefits

Requirements