What did we I see before and after student engaged in thinking and communicating clearly?

List out any adjustments you noticed made by the teacher or students under the sub-categories listed:

PREVIOUSLY: THIS TIME:

● Visual Supports ● Visual Supports

○ Teacher writing out the exemplar during the ○ Student used his notes as a support for his
lesson. writing

○ Students given all information without having to ○ Students used their own texts to work with.
analyze it themselves.
○ Students analyzed a video
● Discourse
● Discourse
○ Students speak when they are asked a question,
○ Students discourse was observed-they discussed
or when the teacher provides the next set of
their writing in pairs, referring to the exemplar
instructions (no opportunities for student-led
on the board.
discourse was observed).
○ Students are making use of some tier 2 words
○ Student use tier 1 vocabulary or vocabulary not
and referring to evidence from video or text.
related to topic or reading
○ Students are being more specific when
○ Students retell main details, but without making
discussing ideas
bigger connections to the text (relating back to a
bigger idea). ○ Students asked clarifying questions.
○ Students do not ask other students clarifying ○ Students made connections to the bigger idea,
questions; they look to the teacher for guidance. and he seemed to be using domain specific
vocabulary.
● Instruction
● Instruction
○ Student misunderstanding of a domain-specific ○ There was less teacher involvement based on
vocabulary words the students ability to effectively communicate.

○ Students couldn’t develop compelling

arguments without the use of domain-specific
vocabulary.