Check Out Courtney Huber's Master Class in Check for Understanding

This week in our video review meetings we cut a master clip of Courtney Huber, a fourth grade teacher at North Star Academy’s Vailsburg Elementary School in Newark. We call it a master clip because it is a case study in the use of all the parts of Check for Understanding woven together. It starts as Courtney, whose students are reading, Bonanza Girl by Patricia Beatty, asks her students to write a response to the question, “Why does Farr want to make trouble for the Scotts?”As they work Courtney gathers real-time data on student answers. She’s looking carefully for this specific aspect of answers: Can they both answer correctly and cite evidence to support their answer? She observes that they can do the first but not the second, so she goes a step further and gathers actual student answers to study. In TLaC 2.0 we call this deep excavation—using an extended wrong answer analysis as a teaching tool. Finally the clip ends with some Own and Track- the students record what they learned studying right and wrong answers.

It’s great teaching, but this description touches only on the bare bones. There’s a lot more to Courtney’s technique so I asked a few members of my staff to add their thoughts about why Natalie’s clip is so remarkable. So here it is, Courtney’s tremendous teaching and some of the bright spots as seen through the eyes of Team TLaC.

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