Data+Teams

__Data Teams__ My partner school uses school wide data teams, which are broken up into smaller groups by grade levels. Each teacher in the grade plays an important, specific role in their data team. The teachers attended a two day seminar about how to gather and use data in their classrooms. They are currently following a four week cycle which looks like this: Week one: choose a priority skill, and pre-assess students. Week two: teachers meet and discuss the results of the pre-assessment. They discuss what the root of the problem may be for lower scores, they decide on common strategies to improve scores, they make a plan for creating and implementing a curriculum to improve scores over the next two weeks, they agree on a proficiency goal for their students (this goal take into account not only the hard data from the pre-assessment, but also the background of the students, such as knowing that they learned this last year and it will be a matter of review so the goal should be higher than expected.) Week four: give a post assessment and meet to discuss scores. For more information on data teams, including a comparison of data team techniques, follow the link below: Data Team Meetings