Teaching Lab Report

San Diego Participant Feedback

Here is an overview of the overall feedback on the course, 62% of participants rated the course a 7 or higher.

Below I compile participant feedback for all quantifiable questions for each facilitator on the left side of the tab, and qualitative feedback on the right side.

Facilitator Feedback

Adelfa Hegarty

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All Responses for Adelfa Hegarty
Discussions

Alisha Powers

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All Responses for Alisha Powers
Excellent
Teachers sharing their thoughts and the presentation was helpful
Many teachers agree we are unhappy with the holes in the curriculum, having to print everything, no homework, no student access to Learnzillion.

Ashmeet Sahni

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All Responses for Ashmeet Sahni
We had a chance to really look at a lesson.

Bethany Brown

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All Responses for Bethany Brown
talking to peers about what works
homework suggestions
Great job!
A lot of great discussions.
Nothing
Thank you for focusing on the math!
Learned about effective questioning.
More time in break out rooms.
conversation with other grade level alike teachers, time to read through the IM curriculum
I want more supports mentioned for Special Education in these Learnzillion PDs. Visuals or videos to complement the math lessons would be great. It does not seem to be differentiated for different types of learners.
Breakout rooms to talk with other schools
Learnzillion site there seems to be so much clicking around to find the lesson, I wish the site was more user friendly to find lessons and supports to that lesson more quickly/ easier ways
I liked how we looked at our grade level lesson
Nothing about facilitation skills. She was great.
Well prepared; patient with slow feedback from audience/teacher; clear explanation of tasks; multiple invitations to engage
Nothing the facilitator did wrong. To me, this is such a dry subject and is not easy to engage teachers at the end of a workday. I think more lesson instruction and less philosophy instruction would be more helpful to me as a teacher who is new to embracing teaching math this way.
There is way too much focus on equity, and there is not nearly enough focus on the math. One of our facilitators had absolutely no elementary math experience. It is BORING. This seems like such a waste of time when we could be really diving into the curriculum.
The internet only went down at Sessions, and at PBE it worked!
Everything else. PLEASE focus on the math.
informational
thanks!
focused and clear
Jamboard
information

Callie Herring

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All Responses for Callie Herring
She was a great facilitator!
Learning how to elicit student thinking and getting a chance to try on being a student
I would not have changed anything
At first I had no clue what I was going to learn today because I didn't participate in the summer learning. Through the training I now understand elicit thinking. Well done.
the pacing and questioning using the activities were spot on to model the questions.
nothing that I can think of
Understanding how we can elicit student thinking.
More time...

Emily Griffin

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Good flow of the lesson

Emily Howard

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All Responses for Emily Howard
Pace, assignment
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good job
Structured well, pace was good.
Looking at an actual lesson
Everything
Small Groups
Was confused about the overall goal of the lesson or what the takeaway focus was, took me a little to catch on.

Gregory Leap

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This session was helpful because it was content specific. I liked the discussion on the importance of learning goals. The ratio of break-out-room time to main-room time was good.
Relevant material.
Diving deeper into the Critical Concepts
maybe a little faster pace
Breakout rooms according to your preferred grade. I teach 3 grades and this was very helpful!
Email follow up work with link.
I'm okay, sometimes you all go pretty fast because you are veteran math teachers and you know where everything thing is on the different math sites.
Knowing that I am not the only one re-learning what I forgot while learning what I don't know.
I enjoyed the breakout sessions. I think they were timed well, not too long or too short
Really enjoying these classes Thank you
Critical concept map and focus questions
nothing
Looking at the math from the Student perspective
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It was a good lesson. I'm just tired at the end of the day. Also, I find students seem to have a lack of confidence in their abilities. When we help them increase the foundational skill of a unit, they feel more confident and start to enjoy math.
I understood what was going on.
Clearer instructions.
Breakout rooms were either too short or too long. Directions were not always clear. And I've been using and teaching this curriculum for 3 years, I don't understand what I'm supposed to be getting from this professional development. I feel like I'm mostly helping the rest of the people from different schools who are newer to this curriculum when we are in breakout rooms rather than learning anything new myself.
We started and ended on time.
It would be nice if this were more relevant. I feel like what we are learning, I already learned from our district resource teachers/district math department over the last 2+ years. This is probably helpful for teachers new to the curriculum, but I'm not learning anything new which is frustrating. There was a brief mention of culturally relevant teaching, but it was very brief and nothing clear or concrete was given.
I apologize but these trainings have been very repetitive. I have been a part of the SDEM for 3 years now and I have already been through these trainings. I would like to see more about how to make these lessons more culturally relevant.
working with my co-teacher regarding our classes
nothing it went well
It was a good introduction to the material
Clear concise statements about directions - written or verbal
none at this time
It was quick and to the point
not sure at this time
I need more of the nuts and bolts of daily lesson facilitating rather that the reasoning behind how it is equitable.
Seeing good math discussion.
nothing it was perfect
He was nice. not boring.
nothing.
Examples given and the breakout rooms
Time to work with other teachers.
The timing was well done and I did like the breakout rooms. The questions were relevant and helpful to work through.
Respectfully, I didn't feel like I learned anything new.
Everything
Nothing
Great facilitator. Working as a student is always helpful
nothing
Breakout Rooms
technology and dialogue was smooth
the discourse that was promoted in breakouts.
I was satisfied with the session. I would like to get to the meat of the classroom implementation work quicker, if anything.

Hanady Elsayed

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All Responses for Hanady Elsayed
Looking forward to an upcoming lesson and practicing with team mates.
Collaboration and input on lessons and targeting student needs with thought provoking questions. Identifying possible misperceptions and sharing ideas to afdress
She was great, but didn't know the program Learn Zillion that we use.
Breakout room with my grade level
Knowing more about the LearnZillion platform that we have to use for IM
Break out room conversation regarding preparing for a lesson
Learning about platforms
Hanady is very positive and knowledgeable. Love being in her sessions.
People are exhausted and stretched thin but I think they were engaged.
Continue to incorporate research cases that speak to the inequities in our math spaces.
The act of going into lessons that we are actually going to teach was very valuable. It gave us the opportunity to read questions that were posed and to create a few on our own that we could ask the students as we engage in the learning.
Additional time to process and discuss with whole group our thinking and to see the scope and sequence of what our students learned before us and what's needed to solidify their knowledge and thinking for moving forward to the next grade level.
Everything
More grade level practice. Looking more through IM
I am new to the Teaching Lab and feel very supported here in these PD sessions. Thank you!
Clarity in the approach to questioning so we focus on student understanding.
Looking at upcoming lessons.
Our breakout room in our grade level
More grade level practice looking through IM-there are so many parts to look at, it's exhausting
great session!
discussion about questioning
nothing
More participants to share their thoughts.
Too many questions that I had to answer without any background. I was waiting for some content and it never came. I feel like I gained nothing from this session except for more confusion.
Opening
Needs to be more engaging and give us some content. I am still not sure what the role of lab leaders are.
Good guidance by insructor.
I don'y think you need the techers talking as much as you need the instructor giving us useful strategies. And don't call on random people. It makes them uncomfortable.
pacing
demonstrations and collaboration
I couldn't get to prework
Great job
Learning together
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Opportunities to work in small breakout rooms. Sharing out other groups' work.

Kelsey Wasser

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The opportunities for grade level collaboration
Thank you for giving us time to work on our grade-level content.
Great training.
Small groups
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Emily Griffin has so much positive energy. She is a wonderful facilitator!
Breakout rooms
Nothing.
Great working with grade team.
Understanding building questions
My preparedness
This was the best session yet! Thank you...
Break Out Room Discussions
Getting paid... I hope the grant money is processed soon
Strong connection to what the teachers are grappling with right now.
It was great!
Great pacing and loved the different ways you asked for participation
Opportunities to work many times with grade level partners
I liked that we were able to work on a lesson that we will actually be teaching soon, that was very helpful.
Perhaps a little more time to collaborate in the breakout rooms.
Breakout rooms
I think more awareness of other grade level standards so we could understand what students needed to already know to help build focus questions.
safe learning environment
The breakout sessions
Maybe an example of quality questioning.
Good session
Time to work
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everything
I liked that my breakout room was with teachers from my school.
I feel it went a little fast for me because I am not good with computers but I hope next time will be better.
Pacing of presentation
Session was fine. We understand internet issues, we've all had them at some point or another during distance learning. As Pete the Cat would say, It's All Good!
I liked Activity 1 and low stress and the conversation around it.
I stress myself out when asked to respond, thinking I don't have the academic language to share out. I am sure I am feeling like some of the students in my classroom.
Engagement
I think engagement with the Jamboard went well.
I think that doing the training after a day of teaching may have made it challenging for most of us.
Awesome course
Group participation and collaboration
nothing
Great leading and modeling of teacher methods.
Seeing a lesson in action.
Nothing :)
It was a welcoming environment.
My prior knowledge.
The Jam Board breakouts.
This is not a great time because it's hard to focus after a full day of teaching.
Discussion

Kimberly Robertson

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The break out rooms.
Thanks for your time. You did great with little participation from the panel
Kimberly was great.
More time with lesson plans
Everything
breakout rooms with peers
nothing
Kimberly was great.
more help with actual lessons
Thank you
Breakout rooms
More time
Teacher collaboration

Kelsey Wasser

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All Responses for Kristen Taylor
Demonstration of how to teach the warm up.
Maybe pose discussion questions in a more informal way that makes people more comfortable with sharing out in a small group. The content is meaningful and I think that if posed in a different way can result in more conversation.
It all went well. We ended up having a good open communication.
Better understanding of the racial theory presented (more in depth knowledge), background information about today's lesson, as well as a faster paced presentation.
we are already using a curriculum that addresses equity issues. It's aligned to the standards. Coming up our philosophies was not a good use of time. We need to focus on implementing a great curriculum, not proving why ist's a good curriculum.
I think we were a little uncomfortable on the whole group share outs this first time, we may have needed some more community building to get there. Not many people shared.
Writing the purpose statement and discussing it with others. Thinking about the importance of head heart and habits, discussing the enabling conditions for professional learning.
When we got to the "Equity based mathematics teaching practices", the bridge was not strong from what we had just been talking about. We were struggling with the connection and then the prompt and what our HOW and WHY is. I was really confused about what we were supposed to be thinking about there and it felt like we were being guided in a certain direction by the facilitator but I don't think we ever got there. Unfortunately, in our small groups, not everyone was willing to stay focused on the task or seemed motivated to do purposeful work around the task.
opportunity to share out
more time in the breakout rooms
The facilitator was encouraging and provided positive energy to the professional development opportunities.
I was able to connect with other teachers.
A list of contacts would have been useful.
Nice to start to get to know everyone in the group. Looking foward to learning more.
nothing
The presenter was prepared with the materials needed to conduct the session.
Less note - taking scrolling and searching and filling out.

Mary Shaw-Lewis

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Mary is very positive. She makes the Zoom session more enjoyable.
Teachers having an opportunity to share with each other
More time for teachers to do that
Everything: Organized, knowledgeable, courageous, and enlightening
More time...
Very Responsive. But trying to get too much content into the session. We had amazing conversations and then the content was rushed. Less content, more conversations.
Conversations, facilitator built a trusting space
less content. The content is heavy and this session was at the end of the day. More space for conversation.
Mary was fantastic. She was engaging and kept us on-task even at the end of a long day. She is so positive and energetic.
Everything.
Maybe less material to get through. We got stuck on some conversations but they were great conversations. If there had been less stuff to get through, it might not have felt so rushed at th
Positive interaction between participants
Nothing, it was great!
I enjoyed the conversations we had around the inquiry cycle and how
Nothing, it was great!
It was great
Everything Mary was knowledgeable fun and engaging
Nothing

Sheena Lights

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Timing