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Lesson 5.8: Profile of Reading Instructional Practices

Focus: Observe and provide feedback to a colleague.

Prior to the Collaboration Group Meeting

1. Reflection Journal

Write in your reflection journal prior to the Collaboration Group meeting. You are to respond weekly in your journal, reflecting on your learning, observation, questions, and personal connections. Your reflections need to be at least 250 words. You may choose how to format your journal, though you may want to consider the following as you write:

    • What are some new understandings you made this week as a result of the work for this lesson and your work with your students?
    • How has this new understanding influenced your current practice?

Bring your reflection journal to the weekly Collaboration Group meeting, and prepare to share your entries.

2. Reading

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  1. Read Profile of Reading Instructional Practices, K-3 and the Expanded Profile of Reading Instructional Practices, Module 5.
  2. Complete the self-reflection column in Snapshot Profile of Reading Instructional Practices, Module 5.

3. Classroom Observation

    • Arrange with another participant to conduct classroom observations of each other. If you do not have a classroom, find a teacher who is willing to allow you to work in his/her classroom or partner with another participant who does have a classroom.
    • Observe another participant for approximately 2.5 hours or an entire lesson.
    • Complete the “Guided Reading” section of the Expanded Profile of Reading Instructional Practices, Module 5 for this participant. Also complete any other sections of the Expanded Profile of Reading Instructional Practices, Module 5 that you were able to observe.
    • After the observation, arrange for a time to review the observation with your peer. After the discussion, give him/her the Expanded Profile to keep in a file. By the end of the course, he/she will have a profile for Modules 4-7.
    • Using Expanded Profile from the peer that observed you and complete the peer check column in Snapshot Profile. Bring both profiles to the Collaboration Group meeting.
    • By the end of Module 7, a summary of the progress made according to Profile of Reading Instructional Practices, K-3 will be requested.

During the Collaboration Group Meeting

  1. The facilitator leads the Collaboration Group in:

    • Sharing reflection journal entries.
    • Sharing observations and profiles and discussing the following questions:
      • What did you learn about your own teaching as a result of working with your observer?
      • What did you learn about your students?
      • What did you find most helpful about working with your observer and how do you think it will impact your work?
  1. Determine the facilitator, recorder, timekeeper, date, time, and location for the next Collaboration Group meeting.

After the Collaboration Group Meeting

  1. Place the Expanded Profile of Reading Instructional Practices, Module 5 completed by your peer in the file that contains the previous one from Module 4. Place the completed Snapshot Profile of Instructional Practices, Module 5 in the same file. The information from these profiles will be used in Module 7 when a summary of progress is requested.
  2. The timekeeper emails the attendance to the instructor.
  3. The recorder places copies of all the work done by the Collaboration Group in the Collaboration Group Notebook for future reference.