Through the use of explicit teaching and the pre- and post-test rubric goal setting, students are coached every step of the way to mastery.
Coaching involves letting students learn through trial and error, letting students use procedural and declarative knowledge, and letting students start to develop the proper procedures of problem solving. The type of instruction that I use in my math lesson is explicit instruction and explicit instruction is pure coaching. Whether it is the meta-cognition in the ‘I do’ phase, the student input with teacher guidance in the ‘We do’ phase, or the guided independent practice of the ‘I do’ phase, every single part of the lesson involves, and indeed needs, coaching. The final administering of the personal goal setting rubric after the unit post-test is the final leg of the coaching framework. Each student gets to have a small conversation with the teacher, they see their pre-test rubric results and then they compare them, with teacher guidance to their post-test rubric results. If all steps of the process were accomplished correctly, students should be able to see their progress towards, and hopefully completion of, mastery.
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AuthorBenjamin Snitker. A master's candidate at Colorado State University-Global Campus. |