Week 4 – Getting Ready for Online Survey or School ‘snapshot’

Week 4 – Getting Ready for Online Survey or School ‘snapshot’

DomainCommunityParentsLeadershipSchool VisionTeam BuildingProfessional Develop

ment

Time ManagementCycle OrganizationPedagogyEvaluationTechnology

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CommunitySees School as the place

where learning occurs

Is aware of the shared responsibility for learning

Occasionally visible in schools offering help and expertise, participating in extracurricular activities

Visible participates in school based learning activities and in community based learning activities

Does NOT incorporate principles of the QEP

Demonstrates Understanding of SOME of the principles of QEP

Understands and incorporates MANY principles of the QEP

Toward FULL integration of the principles of QEP

Parents Have an “arms-length”

involvement in pedagogy

Regularly informed about pedagogical direction

Asks to contribute to some decision making around on pedagogical decisions

Actively engaged in pedagogical decisions.





Leadership Principal makes decisions

and occasionally consults

Decisions are reached by vote and /or consensus

Leadership is occasionally shared in various areas

Teachers and community take ownership of change.





School Vision Goals are established

without vision-making

Vision-making has some impact on setting goals

Shared visions used in establishing many goals

A shared vision drives all activities in the school.





Team Building Teachers work individually

most of the time

Teachers work in teams but not within the classroom

Teachers work effectively in small interdisciplinary or cycle teams.

Everyone is part of a team, sharing and planning tasks, involved in the realization of shared goals and vision.





Professional Devleopment Expertise and decision

making around PD comes from outside the school

Some use of in-house expertise and some internal decision making in PD

Teachers personal professional growth contributes to strengthening the shared internal expertise; which is supported by external expertise.

Teachers’ personally directed professional expertise and strategic use of external expertise aligns with the needs and vision of the school.





Time Management No time for teamwork is built

into workloads

Funding grants are used to create team time

Most team time is built into workloads

Teams contribute to shared strategic decision making around their own time and workloads.





Cycle Organization Teachers teach students by

single grade levels

Teaching in teams with various groupings.

One teacher stays with a group for two years

Cycle team manages all students in that cycle.





PedagogyLearning is organized around disciplinary content, is teacher focused and program driven.

Some learning is may be integrated across disciplines and may “touch on” the cross curricular competencies or is linked to a focus drawn from the broad areas of learning.Learning is often organized around student inquiry; the teacher relates the learning to the broad area of learning throughout the process; the teacher aims explicitly at the development of cross curricular and subject specific competencies. It is the shared responsibility of a team of teachers.Learning is driven by student inquiry, which arises from the focuses of development of the Broad Areas of Learning; teacher teams share the responsibility of promoting the aims of the QEP through explicit development of cross-curricular and subject area competencies.





Evaluation End-of-grade tests defined by

disciplinary content and objectives

Use of some complex tasks in some discipline; use of some descriptive tools and tools allowing for observation, however criteria are not drawn from the program.

Use of a range of tools and methods (portfolios, complex tasks) in all disciplines; pertinent evaluation criteria are drawn from the program.

Use of observation and descriptive tools; use of portfolios and complex situations integrating multiples competencies. All criteria are pertinent and are drawn from the program, stated in observable terms; students are active in the process.





Technology Taught as a set of skills to be

mastered.

Occasionally built into learning activities

Regularly integrated into learning situations

Used as a continuous resource within class





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Week 4 – Getting Ready for Online Survey or School ‘snapshot’