Learning tracks

Three instruments that go down to the ground once the survey has sketched it

The field instruments: documents, observation and interview

6 lessons 40 minutes In a higher plan

After the broad sweep come the instruments that verify it. This track covers document analysis in its four families, classroom observation with its eight practices, six rules and its floor on forms, the discipline of note-taking and its three tools, learning-environment observation, and the four interviews with what running them requires.

By the end of this track you will be able to…

  • Identify the documents each domain needs, without piling up what serves no indicator
  • Plan the classroom observations by number and spread across subjects
  • Write a descriptive classroom note free of judgement and inference
  • Run an interview that gathers information about performance instead of turning into an audit
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Lesson 1

Document analysis

A document is written, audio or visual material, in any form — electronic or on paper — that carries information about an event. Document analysis is the instrument the team uses to gather data against the standards and indicators, and the documents fall into four families.

  • School management: the operational plan, the student guidance plan and its reports, the performance-indicator follow-up plan, the activity plan, the professional development plan, enrichment programmes, and learner-protection procedures
  • Safety and security: the safety plan, evacuation plans and their evaluation, equipment records, and training-requirement records
  • Teaching effectiveness: samples of learner and teacher portfolios, performance follow-up records, assessment forms, and teachers' own self-evaluation and reflective-practice reports
  • Learning outcomes: discipline and behaviour reports, health-promoting programmes, enrichment programmes, and reports on competitions and participation
Record document analysis against its indicators

The rest of the track comes with a subscription

You have read the first lesson in full. The remaining lessons are included in the paid packages, and these are their titles.

  1. 2 Classroom observation: what is being observed
  2. 3 The rules of classroom observation
  3. 4 Writing the note
  4. 5 Observing the learning environment
  5. 6 Interviews
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Data, evidence, the readiness form and the report How an observation becomes evidence, and evidence becomes a report
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