Sunday, September 4, 2011

Analysis of Interviews of Dr. Timothy Chargois, Dr. Kirk Lewis and Dr. Johnny Briseno

Dr. Timothy Chargois
-Director of Research, Planning and Development
-Beaumont ISD

Topic: School Performance/ Individual teacher

Description:

“How to be a data driven in pedagogy and content”
-data impacts students immediately
-Increase student performance
-Data used for immediate feedback to students
-Data used to impact teacher instruction immediately
-Software to make predictions of how students are likely to perform

Reflection: Data is a very systematic approach to immediately give back feedback to both teachers and students. Teachers use data to guide instruction for each child. Ex-teach and test until the results are positive in the classroom.



Dr. Kirk Lewis
-Superintendent
-Pasadena ISD

Topic: School Performance/ Individual teacher

Description:

-received grant from Gates Foundation for a project called, “Expectation Graduation.”
-change to deliver a more rigorous and relevant curriculum and instruction to 9th grade students
-change to deliver instruction and deeper level of understanding
-Data used to drive instruction at the campus level
-Data used at the district level for global goals
-used practical goals
-data used to analyze and apply at classroom level

Reflection: Data is a very important way to drive and change instruction when it not working for certain students.


Dr. Johnny Briseno

-Principal
-Rancho Isabella Elementary
Angleton ISD

Topic:School Performance/Individual teacher

Description:

-looks at data/facts about students
-must have data(source of data) when looking at a student who has a problem
-looks at quantitative and qualitative data for each student
-data used to intervene before student is retained
-peers share instructional strategies with each other

Reflection: Again data is used to guide instruction. Something new here is peer collaboration. Dr. Briseno also looks at the whole student and NOT just the data for each student. Also uses EBSCO for articles


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