Showcase your work
Introduction
What do coaches need to know and be able to do to support teachers' needs?
What are the characteristics of learning activities that will help students develop these skills?
Getting Started
It is time to celebrate and share your work using a Wows and Wonders Gallery Walk. Your gallery walk will be much like visiting an art gallery to view and reflect on an artist’s work.
Part A: Prepare for the Gallery Walk
Part B: Gallery Walk
It is time to go on a Gallery Walk to offer and receive feedback.
Part C: Reflect
With your partner, review the comments you received and discuss which probing question caused you to reflect most deeply.
Conclusion
Debrief the Gallery Walk as a whole group.
What do coaches need to know and be able to do to support teachers' needs?
What are the characteristics of learning activities that will help students develop these skills?
Getting Started
It is time to celebrate and share your work using a Wows and Wonders Gallery Walk. Your gallery walk will be much like visiting an art gallery to view and reflect on an artist’s work.
Part A: Prepare for the Gallery Walk
- With your partner, prepare a short written summary statement that describes your improved lesson (your 'work of art'). Include the following:
- What you consider to be the greatest strengths of your lesson.
- Places where you could use some help making continued improvements.
- As coaches, the learning you have gained through this collaborative lesson improvement process.
- Post your summary statement, your improved lesson, and your student learning plan for viewing by others.
- Your facilitator will guide you to set up the Gallery Walk in one of two ways: by having both of you go on the Gallery Walk (relying on the statement you have written to outline your improvements), or by having one of you present the statement as groups visit.
Part B: Gallery Walk
It is time to go on a Gallery Walk to offer and receive feedback.
- Prompted by your facilitator, visit and learn about the other teams' summary statements, improved lessons, and student learning plans
- For each team, start with the summary statement. Then review the task, scenario, essential question, student plan, and as much of the rest of the lesson as you can.
- Leave a written comment that includes at least one specific Wow (appreciation) and one Wonder (probing question). Your goal is to encourage the team to reflect deeply.
- After reviewing each team's work, return to your own work and review the feedback you received.
Part C: Reflect
With your partner, review the comments you received and discuss which probing question caused you to reflect most deeply.
Conclusion
Debrief the Gallery Walk as a whole group.
- What was most valuable about the Gallery Walk?
- Were there any new tech tools you saw on your Gallery Walk that might improve your lesson, or that you might use with a similar lesson in the future?
- How could you use this Gallery Walk approach to reviewing work in your school?