Division of Instructional Services - Dallas ISD



|[pic] |Reflection Tool for TAKS Results |

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| |Description: Identify areas of strength and weakness in TAKS results by grade and content area to |

| |collaboratively plan for improvement. |

Content area:

Grade:

Use last spring’s TAKS results for this year’s students (current enrollment) on MyData Portal.

1. For our grade and content area, list the three highest SEs by objective:

2. For our grade and content area, list the three lowest SEs by objective:

3. What strategies can improve student success on these SEs?

4. How did our grade-level content area compare to other schools in the area? District? State?

5. How did our team members do? (List scores only, no names.)

6. What best practices do the highest scoring team members use in the following areas and how did they use them?

• Classroom procedures and routines

• Marzano’s nine strategies

• Graphic organizers

• Vocabulary practices

• Lesson planning

• Interventions

• District scope and sequence

• Student processing

• Academic student conversations

• Questioning techniques

• Other:

7. How do lesson-planning practices support instruction?

8. WHAT’S NEXT?

Possible answers might include: We will…

• attend weekly collaborative meetings (with an agenda, learning logs kept in binders, and sign-in sheets at each meeting)

• ask about available training in areas of need from district content departments

• meet weekly to plan lessons together

• take part in article/book studies in our area of need

• schedule teacher observations

• take part in “active” demos

• get training in reading diagnosis (across the content areas)

• get (more) training on MyData Portal/Curriculum Central

• meet with the instructional coaches from the content areas to discuss high-yield strategies and best practices

• investigate what pre-assessments are available from the content departments

• complete the Teacher Self-Reflection form available on the DCM page of MyData Portal

• complete the Classroom Analysis form available on the DCM page of MyData Portal

• meet monthly for vertical and horizontal collaboration and data sharing (using the Vertical Alignment tool available on the DCM page of MyData Portal)

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