Description
Sharpen Your Observation Skills—In Real Time
Classroom dynamics are constantly shifting—and great observers know how to shift with them. The FREE Real-Time Evidence Tables tool is a free, high-impact resource from our book Learner-Focused Feedback designed to help administrators, coaches, and peer observers adjust their evidence collection strategies during a lesson to better determine teacher impact on student engagement and learning. This tool provides examples of an observer’s thinking in “real time” in a lesson and is meant to help observers track what they’re seeing, connect it to student outcomes, and prepare for feedback that truly feeds forward.
Why Use Real Time Evidence Tables?
This resource helps observers:
- Adapt in the moment by using five key instructional focus areas as a lens for what to watch, question, and capture.
- Understand cause and effect between instructional decisions and student behavior, thinking, and understanding.
- Collect better evidence to inform actionable, learning-focused feedback.
How to Use This Free Tool
- Before a classroom visit, review the five focus areas to center your mindset on what matters most.
- During a lesson, use the model to reflect in real time and shift your attention as new opportunities to understand impact emerge.
- After the visit, connect the evidence collected to teacher impact and student goals to prepare better feedback or coaching conversations.
What’s Included?
📌 Figure 5.2 from our book – On-going Thinking Aligned to Focus Areas
A guide with an observer’s thinking based on examples for capturing student actions, teacher actions, and environmental factors when an observer first enters a classroom.
📌 Classroom example 5.4 from our book – On-going Evidence Collection
Examples of using internal questions to view student work, listen to students talk, and interact to better inform understanding of engagement and learning.
Download today—so your observations evolve with the lesson, not after it.
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