Tuning Protocol

Tuning Protocol Introduction/Norms For today’s protocol, 5 minutes Review [presenting teacher name] will share a lesson for us to review and provide feedback.

Our norms are (read through the norms)

Our parking lot is located on the chart rack. [name], would you mind being in charge of listing anything we need to put up on the parking lot?

The steps in today’s protocol will be as follows: (read through steps on chart) Presentation ______, you now have 5 5 minutes minutes to share your lesson, what the objective was, the student work you brought, and strategies you used. Also tell us your focusing question for what you want feedback on. Review the Focusing So the focusing question is: Question (repeat focusing question)

Clarifying Questions We now have 5 minutes to ask 5 minutes clarifying questions. Remember that this isn’t the time to offer suggestions. Silent Idea Generating We now have 5 minutes of 5 minutes silent writing time to come up with suggestions for ______, as well as positive feedback. Put 1 idea per post-it note. Strategy Discussion We now have 10 minutes to 10 minutes share our ideas. Remember not to talk to _____ directly. We’ll be talking about the lesson as if she isn’t here. She will be

Riverside County Office of Education taking notes, but not talking to any of us at this time. Presenting Teacher Now _____ has 5 minutes to 5 minutes Response respond to any of the feedback that she chooses to. This is the time that the rest of us just listen, and give her time to think through any of the ideas that seemed useful or interesting. Idea Collection Would everyone now pass all of your notes to ______. Process Debrief Now the whole team, including 5 minutes [presenting teacher], has 5 minutes to talk about how the protocol process itself went for us, whether we followed our norms, and anything that didn’t work very well.

Our presenter for the next team meeting will be ______. Parking Lot We now have a few minutes to 5 minutes talk about our Parking Lot items (if any items were listed).

We have nothing on the parking lot for this time, so this concludes our protocol. Thank you, [presenting teacher], and thank you everyone.

Riverside County Office of Education