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The Advantages Of Conducting Classroom Walkthroughs

By Ines Flores


It is possible to gain a complete idea of training in a specific school by doing a classroom dry run. This can be brief in nature, but can make the production of data patters easier like the numerous opportunities there are to meet the numerous skills and interests of students, the kinds of work they produce, the instructional approaches teachers use and levels of engagement. These are usually shared with the members of the faculty for them to discuss about efficient ways to meets the students' needs and increase achievement.

An environment of resentment and suspicion can be created or a professional culture of continuous learning and development can be built by providing teachers with feedback and visiting classrooms. However, this will depend on the stand school administrators take. For example, feedback of school principals and administrators can increase teacher confidence and growth if they conduct classroom walkthroughs to find evidence and recognize attributes such as meaningful student learning and positive practices.

School principals and administrators use dry runs to acknowledge the teachers' good effort and engage them in a professional dialogue. This is an excellent procedure for them to collect data. A value-added feedback can be in a form of questions. For example, school principals and administrators may ask the teachers they have observed if there are additional ways or procedures to make sure that every student succeeds in content learning and application.

Without a doubt, in any institution there is always room for development. The runthrough method is an effective approach to assist administrators as well as teacher to do a better job at enhancing the learning opportunities of their students.

On the other hand, the purpose of this procedure can be defeated if assumptions are made or tiny criticisms are paid with more attention without knowing more about the intentions of the teachers and how they gauge student success. The success of dry runs will greatly depend on the respect the administrators give to the teachers.

It cannot be denied that one of the things that should be addressed right away is an unsafe situation. For example, a student may put others at risk, causes learning distraction or school principals and administrators may find students excluded from learning or isolated in the lecture room by the school teacher.

Immediate attention is necessary. Correction of these circumstances should be done by means of intervention to get rid of the behavior that is causing problems and speaking to the teacher after class too to be guaranteed that these bad practices eliminated. This means it is necessary for follow up visits to be conducted.

The understanding of school leaders should be increased especially in terms of what is going on in the classroom. Being more reflective and supporting good practice are also important. The professional culture of the school can be improved by increasing the sense of common purpose and trust. These can only be achieved by getting and sharing dry run data in a way that a positive outcome can be accomplished.




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