Wednesday Weekly
IMESD/OTREN Regional Coaches Huddle - 2/1/23
February Coaches Corner
This week's resources center around John Hattie's Visible Learning research. John Hattie developed a way of synthesizing various influences in different meta-analyses according to their effect size. In his ground-breaking study Visible Learning he ranked 138 influences that are related to learning outcomes from very positive effects to very negative effects. Hattie found that the average effect size of all the interventions he studied was 0.40. Therefore he decided to judge the success of influences relative to this ‘hinge point’, in order to find an answer to the question “What works best in education?” Below are three resources on his research and strategies we can work with teacher to incorporate into their teaching.
We are looking forward to our regional coaches huddle next week! We hope everyone can join us on February 8th from 9:30 am to 11:30 am at the Pendleton IMESD office.
Regards,
Ayla, Beth, & Jennifer
This Week's Featured Resources
Visible Learning Research
This website provides a list of those influences/strategies along with the research for each.
“The aim is to get the students actively involved in seeking evidence: their role is not simply to do tasks as decided by teachers, but to actively manage and understand their learning gains.” John Hattie
Jigsaw Method
The jigsaw classroom is a research-based cooperative learning technique invented and developed in the early 1970s by Elliot Aronson and his students at the University of Texas and the University of California. Since 1971, thousands of classrooms have used jigsaw with great success.
Classroom Discussion
Cult of Pedagogy offers a blog post on speaking and listening techniques (classroom discussion ideas).
Coach Huddles
February 8- Coaching Huddle (Hybrid)
Guest Presenter- Katie Smith; Core Collaborative
Topic Focus: Coaching teachers on the Formative Assessment Process
9:30am- 11:30am (Juniper room in Pendleton or via zoom)
March 8- Coaching Huddle (In-Person)
Topic: TBD
9:30am- 11:30am (Juniper room in Pendleton)
April 28- Coaching Huddle (Hybrid)
Guest Presenter- Michelle Harris; Instructional Coaching Group
2:00pm-3:30pm (Juniper room in Pendleton or via zoom)
May 17- Coaching Huddle (Hybrid)
Topic: Developing effective impact/PLC teams and organizing impact team meetings
Guest Presenter- Katie Smith; Core Collaborative
9:30am- 11:30am (Juniper room in Pendleton or via zoom)
IMESD Instructional Coaches
The instructional coaches (Beth, Ayla, and Jennifer) are part of the Instructional Services Department at the InterMountain Education Service District. Our three focus areas this year are:
- Professional Development
- Educator Huddles (Content-Specific, GROW- Beginning Teachers, EdTech, Regional Coaches)
- One-on-one or small group coaching cycles
We work closely with the Oregon Trail Regional Educator Network (REN) and have projects in each of these focus areas.
Email: instructionalcoaches@imesd.k12.or.us
Website: https://sites.google.com/imesdapps.org/instructional-coaching/home
Location: Eastern Oregon
Phone: 541.966.3100