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Section 3: Inquiry Focus and Planning (Attach Pre/Post Assessments and Data Collection Tools)
Directions: Your inquiry question should be concise and likely no more than 8-10 words. Your hypothesis should indicate what you expect students to be able to do after the lesson, and it should
be able to be evaluated based on your assessment plan. Note that Semester 3 requires an inquiry question that focuses on use of technology to support teaching and learning.
Inquiry Question Hypothesis Lesson Series Topic Assessments/Data Collection
Will implementing differentiation strategies throughout math
Students will have increased achievement in addition and Pre-unit Checkin-in
lessons, such as small group work and use of math 1 week unit on solving for unknowns in equations to 20.
subtraction to 20, as measured by the end of unit assessment. Post-unit Test
manipulatives, improve the outcomes of students at all levels?
Focus Students
Directions: Identify three focus students for your inquiry. Identify special characteristics of the students and include performance data. Explain why you have selected them for this inquiry focus.
Do not use actual names of students. (Note: At least one focus student should be an English learner and at least one must have an ILP/504 accommodation. The third is your choice, but please
identify someone that poses an instructional challenge.) Identify expected results for each focus student.
Focus Student 1: English Learner Focus Student 2: Student with ILP/504 Focus Student 3: Your Choice
VZ- speaks Spanish at home and English HO- has an IEP with difficulty
TW- excels in reading and writing,
at school. Is fluent in English, but still focusing and some learning
though he has struggled to meet
struggles with academic language at disabilities. He is currently being re-
expectations in math. He struggles
Performance times. She is currently meeting some of assessed to update his IEP. He is
Data
with adding and subtracting past 10,
our math standards and expectations, approaching the expectation in all
while she has struggled in some areas, and is often aided by the use of
areas of math currently, though he
such as working with data and working manipulatives such as a number
has mastered adding and subtracting
with shapes and their attributes. rack.
to 10 when using fingers.
I expect that VZ will benefit from
I expect that TW will benefit from
small group instruction, as she will I expect that being able to learn in a
the reteaching of certain math
be able to ask her questions directly smaller group setting will allow HO
Expected Results content, and will therefore improve
and we will be able to clarify to better focus and retain more
in understanding between the pre
academic language involved in these information.
and post assessment.
math lessons.
Inquiry Lesson Implementation Plan
Directions: that Semester 3 requires a lesson that focuses on use of technology to support teaching and learning.
Administer Pre-Assessment Deliver Lesson(s) Administer Post-Assessment Analyze Results Discuss Results with Mentor
Colleagues (Summarize how two colleagues have addressed this issue in their classroom. Identify grade level, subject, and summary of ideas.)
FIRST GRADE GENERAL EDUCATION: Another first grade teacher, who I
worked with last year, set up her daily math time so that her students
SECOND GRADE GENERAL EDUCATION: The second grade teacher at my
rotated through “stations”, allowing her to work in a small group with
school has an aid in her classroom, who helps with differentiation in the
each student at least once per day. She would begin by working with the
classroom. Her aid often pulls students outside to work one on one or in
group who needed the most help, reteaching the math lesson to them
small groups, reteaching specific subject areas or lessons and giving
and working on the worksheet as a group. Meanwhile, other groups
additional guidance. This is what I would like to do with my students
were beginning the math worksheet, and would get her help with
when pulling them aside to reteach math concepts.
anything they had struggled with when it was their time to come to her
station.
Special Emphasis: ISTE Standards (Semester 3 only)
Directions: Identify at least one ISTE-Educator and at least one ISTE- Student Standards that are the primary focus of your project. Explain how these standards will be incorporated.
Special Emphasis Focus How Special Emphasis will be Incorporated
Post-Assessment:
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Focus Student 1: This student still showed mastery of both
addition and subtraction to 20, receiving a 90% on the post-
assessment.
Focus Student 2: On the post-assessment, focus student 2
showed much improvement, receiving a 95% on this assessment.
With the help of small group work and math manipulatives, this
student was able to master addition and subtraction to 20.
Focus Student 3: This student showed some improvement,
receiving a 75% on this assessment. He does, however, still need
re-teaching and additional scaffolding when it comes to working
with addition and subtraction in word problems.
Initial Evidence/Rational for Rating
CSTP Element Revised Rating Suggestions for Moving Forward
Rating (Summarize from POP Section 3)
Promoting critical
To move to INNOVATING level: Consider how to increase
thinking through T – Applying Teacher asked questions of analysis and evaluation.
T – Integrating complexity of task beyond a single lesson so that there are
1.5 inquiry, problem S– Students answered questions that included all levels of
S - Integrating continuing opportunities for students to engage in inquiry in
solving, and Exploring Bloom’s. Students created their own math problems.
complex problem. How could you extend lesson into PBL?
reflection
Action Items
For curriculum design, lesson
planning, assessment
planning
Semester 3 Only:
For future use of technology
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Other Notes
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