Instruction
https://www.ted.com/talks/andreas_schleicher_use_data_to_build_better_schools
1. Watch the video presentation on the PISA test. What are your top three most important ideas from this video that would serve to help you be an effective leader of instructional improvement?
2. What are the characteristics of an effective Professional Learning Community (PLC)? How do those characteristics facilitate curriculum planning and development? As the instructional leader, what is your role in creating a PLC with the characteristics that you identified?
3. Skim the two articles that are attached. Write a very short reflection. Just give your initial thoughts (1-2 paragraphs or so).
4. Skim the Glatthorn1 article. Pay careful attention to the eight types of curricula, interactions of the curricula, and aligning the most important types of curricula. Provide a 1 or 2 paragraph reflection.
5. In a paragraph or two, reflect on the issues mentioned in the article. Remember, as a principal, one of the most difficult challenges is matching the prescribed, taught and learned curricula and then making sure they reflect instructional goals provided to you from the district and state.