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Sunday 8 February 2015

The Advantages Of Conducting Classroom Walkthroughs


By Ines Flores


Conducting classroom dry runs is an excellent procedure for getting an overall idea of instruction in the school. Although naturally brief, these dry runs produce data patterns in terms of the different opportunities to meet the different interests and skills of the students, the types of work the students produce, levels of student engagement and instructional procedures that teachers use. These data patterns can be shared with the faculty to serve as a basis for discussion about how to increase student achievement and meet the needs of students.

Visiting institutions as well as giving teachers feedback can help build a professional manner of constant learning and development or a setting of resentment as well as suspicion. This will, however, be based the institution's stand. Just like for instance, conducting classroom walkthroughs to look for proof as well as acknowledge attributes just like meaningful student learning as well as positive practices cannot just increase the progress of the teachers but help them become more confident too based on the feedback that the school principals as well as administrators have given.

School principals and administrators use dry runs to acknowledge the teachers' good effort and engage them in a professional dialogue. This is an excellent procedure for them to collect data. A value-added feedback can be in a form of questions. For example, school principals and administrators may ask the teachers they have observed if there are additional ways or procedures to make sure that every student succeeds in content learning and application.

Without a doubt, in any institution there is always room for development. The runthrough method is an effective approach to assist administrators as well as teacher to do a better job at enhancing the learning opportunities of their students.

However, the procedure can be ruined by making assumptions or focusing on small criticisms without finding out more about how student success was measured and what the teachers intend. Dry runs can be considered effective when administrators respect the role of the teachers and the environment they are trying to create.

It cannot be denied that one of the things that should be addressed right away is an unsafe situation. For example, a student may put others at risk, causes learning distraction or school principals and administrators may find students excluded from learning or isolated in the lecture room by the school teacher.

Such situation should be dealt with right away. Intervention will be required just like having a talk with the teacher after class in order to stop problematic behaviors and ensure such practices are eliminated. Follow-up visits will be required the next day.

The understanding of school leaders should be increased especially in terms of what is going on in the classroom. Being more reflective and supporting good practice are also important. The professional culture of the school can be improved by increasing the sense of common purpose and trust. These can only be achieved by getting and sharing dry run data in a way that a positive outcome can be accomplished.




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