Pre-Observation Meeting

Clarify Goals
As you think about your lesson, what might be your learning goals for your students?
What might be some of the connections of this goal to the standards?
Specifically, what might you mean when you say Learn..?
What might you want them to walk away with?
As you plan, what long term goals are you considering?
Specify Success Indicators & a Plan for Collecting Evidence
What might the collection of data look like in this lesson?
What evidence might you collect during the lesson?
As you plan for collecting data, what might success look like in this lesson?
How will you know that your students are successful? How will your students know that they successful?
How might you know when youve met your goal?
What will you see/hear to indicate students are successful?
Anticipate Strategies & Decisions & How to Monitor
Craftsmanship:
In what sequence might you place your strategies?
How long are you anticipating _____ will take?
What criteria might you use to decide_____?
What might be the long- and short-term effects of ____?
What might you need to do to be the best prepared you can be for this lesson?
Consciousness:
How will you know when to monitor and adjust?
What will guide your decisions about ____?
As you think about this lesson, what does it look like to you?
Efficacy:
What are some strategies youve used before that might be successful with this group?
How might your actions enhance student learning?
Over what factors might you have most control?
Flexibility:
What are your hunches about how students will view this lesson?
What might be some of the strategies youve considered?
How might these strategies support student learning in other settings or content areas?
What are some of your predications about how this lesson will go?
How will you need to adjust your strategies to ensure success for all students?
Interdependence:
What kind of help might be useful to you with this lesson?
How might some of your teammates support you with this lesson?

Establish Personal Learning Focus

What do you hope to do well in this lesson?
As you plan for instruction, what is a goal you hold for yourself with this lesson?
If you could video tape this lesson what would you want to see/hear in yourself when you replay it?
What might you want to be aware of in yourself as you implement this lesson? How might you determine
whether or not you do this?

Reflect on Coaching
How might you incorporate this process into your own thinking?
How has this meeting supported or clarified your thinking?
What will you take forward from this meeting thats been helpful?

Post-Observation Meeting
Summarize & Recall
How are you feeling about the lesson?
When reflecting on the lesson, how do you feel it went? What evidence do you have that supports this?
Analyze Causal Factors
Craftsmanship:
What might be some trends that you noticed?
What were some of the criteria you used to decide to?
Consciousness:
How might you account for this?
What are your hunches about what caused?
How did you make decisions about?
What comparisons might you make between the lesson you had planned or envisioned and the one you
taught?
What were some things you were paying attention to that prompted you to do that?
How did you make decisions during the lesson?
As you were planning this lesson, what were some of the criteria you used to access higher order
thinking?
Efficacy:
What are some of the things you did to make it go so well?
Which of your skills seemed most useful?
How did you know you could handle the situation?
What was your contribution to how the lesson went?
Flexibility:
What do you think might have been going on for.?
What were some of the options you considered?
What might be some of the ways this lesson stretched your style?
Interdependence:

What are some of the common values between you and ?

What might be some of the resources you utilized?
What are some of the ways your interactions with your team members assisted you with this lesson?

Construct New Learnings

What learnings do you want to take with you to future situations?
What do you want to stay mindful of in future lessons?
Commit to Application
So how might you apply your new learning?
How might you ensure that you maintain focus on this new learning?
Moving forward, in what ways can you apply this learning?
Reflect on Coaching
As you reflect on this conversation, how has it supported your learning?
How might you use this reflection process when there is not a coach present?
At what point in this conversation did you connect a new learning? Light bulb?