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Literacy Look-Fors
An Observation Protocol to Guide K–6 Classroom Walkthroughs
Through a unique seven-step process, administrators and literacy leaders will gain a solid understanding of how to assess and build instructional capacity, overcome roadblocks, develop professional growth opportunities, and create a balanced literacy program. Learn how to identify the look-fors that provide evidence of effective literacy instruction, and bring all students to grade level or well above.
Benefits
- Learn a step-by-step process for conducting walkthroughs and effectively implementing the literacy look-fors.
- Explore the 60 look-fors.
- Examine how to customize an orientation program to introduce the faculty to the look-fors and walkthroughs.
- Review a Q&A section that answers the questions most often asked by principals before, during, and after the implementation of the walkthrough model.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Understand the Literacy Look-Fors
Chapter 2: Understand the Classroom Walkthroughs
Chapter 3: Assess Your Instructional Leadership Capacity
Chapter 4: Orient Your Faculty to the Look-Fors and Walkthroughs
Chapter 5: Collect and Analyze Look-For Frequency Data
Chapter 6: Develop, Implement, and Assess Embedded Professional Development
Chapter 7: Use Team Walkthroughs to Build School Capacity
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Introduction
Chapter 1
- Figure 1.1: The Five Categories of Literacy Look-Fors
- Figure 1.4: Teacher Exemplars and Nonexemplars of Instructional Moves
- Figure 1.5: Look-Fors Observation Protocol—Teacher-Managed Instructional Activities
- Figure 1.8: Teacher Exemplars and Nonexemplars of Teacher-Managed Instructional Activities
- Figure 1.9: Look-Fors Observation Protocol—Components of Teacher With-It-Ness
- Figure 1.11: Teacher Exemplars and Nonexemplars of With-It-Ness
- Figure 1.12: Look-Fors Observation Protocol—Student-Managed Learning Activities
- Figure 1.14: Exemplars and Nonexemplars of Student-Managed Learning Activities
- Figure 1.15: Look-Fors Observation Protocol—Classroom Artifacts
- Figure 1.17: Exemplars and Nonexemplars of Classroom Artifacts
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- Figure 1.1.1: Complete Literacy Look-Fors Observation Protocol
- Figure 1.1.2: Complete Literacy Look-Fors Exemplars and Nonexemplars
Chapter 2
- Figure 2.1: What Classroom Walkthroughs Are and Are Not
- Figure 2.2: Debriefing Guidelines and Confidentiality Agreement
- Figure 2.3: Classroom Walkthrough Learning Stems
- Figure 2.4: Data Collection Form for Teacher Team Classroom Walkthroughs
Chapter 3
- Figure 3.2: Instructional Leadership Behavioral Checklist
- Figure 3.3: The Assertive Administrator Self-Assessment
Chapter 4
- Figure 4.1: Teacher Handouts
- Figure 4.2: School Literacy Program Assessment
- Figure 4.3: Affinity Process Diagram
- Figure 4.5: Sample Grade-Level Team Professional Standards Code
- Figure 4.6: Directions for the Professional Standards Process
- Figure 4.7: Force Field Analysis Worksheet
Chapter 5
- Figure 5.1: Data Aggregation Checksheet
- Figure 5.3: Observation Protocol—Directly Instructing Reading Comprehension Strategies
Chapter 6
- Figure 6.2: Unpacking a Literacy Look-For
- Figure 6.3: A Step-by-Step Approach to Unpacking a Literacy Look-For
- Figure 6.4: Modeling the Unpacking of a Literacy Look-For
- Figure 6.5: Unpacking Directly Instructing Research-Based Presentation Techniques for Teaching Discrete Skills
- Figure 6.6: A Lesson Template for Directly Teaching a Cognitive Strategy
- Figure 6.7: Teacher Team Goal-Setting Worksheet
- Figure 6.8: Teacher Team Action Log
Chapter 7
