When a teacher is planning a learning activity, what’s the movie that’s running in their mind? Are they mostly seeing what they are doing as a teacher or what their learners are doing? When teachers, like athletic and performing arts coaches, focus on the student learning actions they modify instructional moves as soon as recognizing […]

Steve explains how the process of planning backwards leads to student learning production behaviors and desired student outcomes. View the accompanying video for this episode here. Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes! PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Steve [Intro]: 00:00 Hello and welcome to the teacher […]

Teaching, modeling, and coaching student “learning how to learn” behaviors is always a good beginning of the year focus. Currently, some classes are starting virtually and some are split between in-school and virtual. With nearly everyone needing to accelerate learning, its critical. Steve provides coaching questions to use to guide teachers in this exploration. Subscribe […]

In this week’s episode of the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast, Steve looks at shifting the focus away from what teachers are doing in the classroom and putting it on what the students are doing.   Watch the play and practice video here. Read Steve’s Hybrid Rotation Learner Behaviors blog here. Subscribe to the Steve […]

I am presently working in several schools where we are engaging teachers in peer classroom observations with a focus on student learning production behaviors. One of the schools asked me to provide a “compelling why” that they could share with the staff in advance of my visit. I sent this: “The key to student learning […]

In this week’s episode of the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast, Steve is joined by Tracy Fasick, Director of Curriculum and Instruction at Manheim Central, to discuss observing student learning production behaviors. Get in touch with Tracy: fasickt@manheimcentral.org Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find […]