The Collaborative Analysis of Student Work is a comprehensive guide to implementing a research-based approach to professional learning that drives educator effectiveness and promotes learning for ...every student. This book includes step-by-step guidance to implementation supported by numerous tools, protocols, and rich examples.
The collaborative analysis of student learning (Colton, Langer, & Goff, 2015) is a professional learning design that transforms teachers' capacities and commitment to relentlessly pursue and use ...equitable ways to promote students' learning excellence. Thirty years of experience and research indicate to the authors that when facilitated study groups analyze the work of carefully selected students over a period of months, all students benefit--especially those whose cultures are different from that of their teachers. Collaborative analysis of student learning accomplishes these outcomes through structured transformative learning--the "process by which we transform our taken-for-granted frames of reference to make them more inclusive, discriminating, open, emotionally capable of change, and reflective so that they may generate beliefs and opinions that will prove more true or justified to guide action" (Mezirow, 2000, pp. 7-8). These shifts in perspective allow teachers to discover culturally responsive instruction for those students they have struggled to reach and teach. This article provides an example of how a study group using collaborative analysis of student learning helped one middle school social studies teacher transform her beliefs about her Native American Student, and ultimately her own teaching practices. The 5 phases of collaborative analysis of student learning are detailed as a facilitator guides teachers through each phase.
This book is a guide to collaborative analysis of student learning (CASL). Developed and refined with more than 1200 elementary and secondary teachers, this system combines the best of action ...research, study groups, standards-based learning, student assessment, teacher reflection, and portfolio assessment. This system of professional inquiry helps identify the teaching methods that are working successfully. The chapters are: (1) "The Benefits of Collaborative Analysis of Student Learning"; (2) "Why CASL Works: The Framework for Teachers' Reflective Inquiry"; (3) "Culture Building: Norms and Skills for Collaborative Inquiry"; (4) "Phases I and II: The Target Learning Area, Initial Assessment, and Focus Students"; (5) "Phases III, IV, and V: Study Group Analysis of Student Work, Finding More Information, Final Assessment, and Reflection"; (6) "Facilitating CASL"; and (7) "Learning for CASL." Appendixes contain session guides for facilitators and directions for CASL portfolios. (Contains 23 figures and 94 references.) (SLD)
Create a Safe Space to Learn Colton, Amy B; Langer, Georgea M; Goff, Loretta S
The Journal of staff development,
06/2015, Volume:
36, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Probing is a communication skill that provides the psychological safety teachers need to share their perspectives, inquire into those of others, and reconsider what they have been doing and how they ...have been thinking about it. In their book, "The Collaborative Analysis of Student Learning: Professional Learning That Promotes Success for All" (Corwin Press & Learning Forward, 2015), authors Amy B. Colton, Georgea M. Langer, and Loretta S. Goff outline a professional learning design that emphasizes collaborative inquiry with a focus on cultural diversity and equity. This article, which is adapted from the book, provides an in-depth look at one of the communication skills essential to the collaborative inquiry process.
Describes a conceptual framework that integrates teacher cognitive, critical, and personal characteristics; the framework serves to guide the development of reflective decision making, showing ...teacher educators how to form effective teachers. The model's collegial environment encourages efficacy, flexibility, consciousness, and social responsibility. Two pilot teacher education programs that used the framework are described. (SM)
FACILITATION OF COLLABORATIVE INQUIRY Langer, Georgea M; Goff, Loretta; Colton, Amy B
The Collaborative Analysis of Student Learning,
2015, 2016
Book Chapter
