- Because of professional development at Kettle Moraine,
teachers have the skills and the tools that they need
to really meet the needs of all of our students.
Everyone is working towards
creating a culture of growth,
and taking risks to interact and engage with their class
as a whole.
At Kettle Moraine, we have a vision of continuous growth.
Whether that's students, teachers, it's about
how can we get there together.
Visible learning is a strategy where staff
will actually get behind a camera and
have the opportunity to look at themselves
and to watch and reflect on their teaching practices.
- It helps me see what the learning looks like
in my classroom through a different lens.
We did a few test filming sessions
and I saw students all over the place, as far as engagement.
And, so, for my goal I chose to try to increase
student engagement through use of vocabulary words.
More vocabulary, I've defined as more engaged.
When students walk into the classroom, it is nice
to let them know, like hey, I'm going to be filming you today.
They are all part of the process and I share my goal
with them as well.
I'm usually filming about thirty minutes of discussion time;
so I can see who's really interacting,
if they're writing things down, if they're drawing,
if they're showing each other different things.
- [Woman] The swivel is set up for an iPhone or an iPad.
Sometimes, teachers choose to have the camera on students
and then, sometimes they will put the camera on themselves.
So that really just depends on what their goal is.
- We often fall into the habit of making assumptions about
what's going on in the classroom.
And visible learning gives us a chance to see our habits
and our patterns and recognize
maybe why they aren't effective all the time.
Just having a little bit of a shift in our practice
can lead to gains on the students' part.
- It's really important for a teacher to have
the ability to reflect on what they're seeing initially.
It just allows teachers to get comfortable with
the experience.
- I try to watch those films on
the same day they've been recorded.
Just so they're fresh in my mind.
What I do is I watch it through once
without really tracking anything.
The second time through is really when I start to track.
I'm gonna stop the video every minute and tally
which students are authentically engaged
and which students are not.
I'm writing down which vocabulary words they're using
and what I was seeing on film
was a lot of non-engagement with their peers.
- After a teacher watches their video, they meet with the coach
to talk through some of their ideas.
To get another set of eyes either on what they think
that they're seeing in the classroom
or some possible solutions.
- In order to change the students' interaction in class,
I needed to give a little bit more direct instruction on
how to interact with your peers
and how to use science vocabulary words.
- Individually, the teacher is going to be the one that
determines what that success looks like.
- Visible learning gives us a chance
to reflect on our practice, to align
what we believe is happening in the classroom
to what really is happening.
And also, it gives us a chance to adapt
to reach as many students as possible.
- [Bearded Teacher] We are all trying to grow
in our professional career and it's all gonna help
the students at the end of the day.
And that's really the goal of the whole teaching process.