Providing Super Improvers Feedback
As part of my professional learning goal, I am tracking
student behaviors every two weeks. I
finished the first round last week and calculated the percentage of time each
student was meeting the targeted behaviors.
These targeted behaviors include following directions quickly, raising
hand for permission to speak, staying on task, handing in neat work and
applying practiced skills independently.
Each student has a card with these behaviors listed on the front. I used these “Super Improver” Cards to
provide students with feedback regarding their successes with these classroom
behaviors. When I pass out the cards,
students find their percentage of success on the back. When students received this feedback, their
behaviors improved significantly. For
example, this week all of my challenging students increased their level to
Fence sitter or Go-Along (I don’t have the data in front of me to quantify this
but will add later). The Alpha's maintained
their performance, and only 1 student dropped from a Go-Along to a Fence Sitter.
Providing the feedback also helped to eliminate the need of having
to talk with all 100 students. This week
I am focusing on touching base with the student who dropped a behavior level
and those students who increased their performance by two levels. I want to talk to them to recognize their
hard work. All students who showed
improvement and maintained Alpha status earned a sticker on their star.
After the feedback, we had many students move from Rookie to
Phenom on the Super Improvers Wall. It was great to see how proud they were of
themselves. The other students also
became more invested in how many stickers they had collected and how many more
they needed.
Admittedly, this is a bit time consuming but was well worth
the effort and made a great case for the words written in Whole Brain
Teaching for Challenging Kids, “there are no shortcuts to being an
excellent teacher”. More importantly,
the students are invested in their success.
This is huge!!
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