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**DUBBO **** COLLEGE ** ** LESSON OBSERVATION **  || FEEDBACK and DISCUSSION NAME:_ DATE:_ SUPERVISOR/PRINCIPAL/MENTOR:_ KEY CONCEPT/LESSON FOCUS:_ || SUPERVISOR ** ** HT MENTOR ** ** PRINCIPAL ** || || Supervisor/Mentor/Principal: Teacher: ||  ** Summary of Classroom Practices and Structures ** // 4 - Highly Developed // // 3 - Developed // // 2 - Developing // // 1- Not Achieved or Evident // || Evidence of Quality Teaching in NSW Public Schools demonstrated during lesson: Deep knowledge Deep understanding Problematic knowledge Higher order thinking Metalanguage Substantive communication ||  Explicit quality criteria Engagement High expectations Social support  Student self regulation Student direction ||  Background knowledge Cultural knowledge Knowledge integration Inclusivity Connectedness Narrative || Additional comments:
 * || 
 * MAKING QUALITY TEACHING ** **HAPPEN IN OUR CLASSROOMS **
 * The Teacher:
 * knew of the observation in advance
 *  identified the focus of the observation
 * discussed and provided a lesson plan
 * described the teaching and learning elements in the lesson
 * had the opportunity to discuss and debrief after the observation
 * has a written record of the observation
 *  will sign and keep a copy of the record of observation ||
 * OBSERVATIONS: Areas of Strength and Development
 * ** ACTION for TEACHER ** || ||
 * ** ACTION for
 * Signed and dated by
 * // 5 - Excellent //
 * || 5  ||  4  ||  3  ||  2  ||  1  ||  N/A  || Comments ||
 * Adequate Lesson Planning || || || || || || || ||
 * Orderly entry into classroom || || || || || || || ||
 * Routines established || || || || || || || ||
 * Prepared to start teaching (resources) || || || || || || || ||
 * Appropriate content, presentation, resources || || || || || || || ||
 * Clarity of instructions expectations || || || || || || || ||
 * Clear purpose, logical structure || || || || || || || ||
 * Development of student literacy || || || || || || || ||
 * Development of student numeracy || || || || || || || ||
 * Evidence of departmental policies || || || || || || || ||
 * Evidence of supervision of student work || || || || || || || ||
 * Rapport with students || || || || || || || ||
 * Effective use of voice || || || || || || || ||
 * Effective use of resources || || || || || || || ||
 * Lesson timing || || || || || || || ||
 * Involvement of all students in lesson || || || || || || || ||
 * Engaging student interest || || || || || || || ||
 * Flexibility to change (if required) || || || || || || || ||
 * Catering for individual differences || || || || || || || ||
 * Effective closure of lesson || || || || || || || ||
 * Care and accountability of teaching equipment || || || || || || || ||
 * Orderly dismissal of class || || || || || || || ||
 * Effective classroom management || || || || || || || ||
 * Professional appearance and demeanour || || || || || || || ||
 * Adequate Record keeping || || || || || || || ||
 * Intellectual Quality ||  Quality Learning Environment  ||  Significance  ||
 * 

  || **Significance ** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">q <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Deep understanding <span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">q <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Problematic knowledge <span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">q <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Higher-order thinking <span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">q <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Metalanguage <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">q Substantive communication <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">q <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Explicit quality criteria <span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">q <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Engagement <span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">q <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">High Expectations <span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">q <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Social support <span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">q <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Students’ self regulation <span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">q <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Student direction || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">q  Background knowledge <span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">q <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Cultural knowledge <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">q Knowledge integration <span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">q <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Inclusivity <span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">q <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Connectedness <span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">q <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Narrative || <span style="color: #3c3686; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">
 * The dimensions of the NSW Quality Teaching model **
 * **<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Elements ** || **<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Intellectual Quality ** || **<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Quality Learning Environment **
 * ^  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">q  <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Deep knowledge

1. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> ** Intellectual Quality **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">refers to pedagogy focused on producing deep understanding of important, substantive concepts, skills and ideas. Such pedagogy treats knowledge as something that requires active construction <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">and requires students to engage in higher-order thinking and to communicate substantively about what they are learning. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> ** Quality Learning Environment **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">refers to pedagogy that creates classrooms where students and teachers work productively in an environment clearly focused on learning. Such pedagogy sets high and explicit expectations and develops positive relationships between teachers and students and among students. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> ** Significance **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">refers to pedagogy that helps make learning meaningful and important to students. Such pedagogy draws clear connections with students’ prior knowledge and identities, with contexts outside of the classroom, and with multiple ways of knowing or cultural perspectives. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">