Guided observation
Teaching and Learning Alliance can help districts and schools articulate a vision for what classrooms will look like as development of new initiatives unfold by visiting schools in other districts where similar work has been implemented. Guided Observations involve the following:
- Facilitating coordinated school/district team observations outside of your own district to learn desired, exemplary practices from educators in other cities and towns
- Guiding well-planned pre-briefing, classroom tours, debriefing, and interaction with host students and teachers to fully understand practices and outcomes
- Promoting conversation around lessons learned and resonating practice and co-constructing strategies for successful transference of promising practices
- Catalyzing transference for visiting educators through co-construction of vision, implementation plans, and learning activities to address specific student and teacher needs in the visiting school/district
