Sunday, October 29, 2017

Making the most of our time with pre-preparation; Data Team and the Google Doc

The most important part of Data Team is for the teachers to be able to leave with a plan of how to address their student’s deficits (academic or behavioral). With 60 minutes to get through 10 teachers, we did not have time to waste rifling through books or web pages looking for interventions in the few minutes allotted for each student.  
My teachers were leaving without comprehensive plans and I knew there must be a better way. We were not able to provide comprehensive plans for many of the teachers and they left empty handed.  I had heard of another district that put information about their struggling students on a Google doc.  
I decided to try this with my team; have them read about their peers students ahead of time and come up with evidence-based interventions before the meeting even started.  I brought the idea to the team.  They liked it and we decided to give it a try. I created a Data Team Google doc with spots for student’s IEP goal or area of need, current data, and current interventions.  There were spots for the accepting teacher and their suggested evidence-based intervention. I also created a list of websites and reference materials for my teachers to use to find those evidence-based interventions. I sent out all the information for our first new data team and hoped for the best.

2 comments:

  1. What a great idea to use meeting time more productively!

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  2. Thank you! It takes extra planning on my team's part, but it makes our meetings more effective.

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