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The MQI Protocol for Classroom Observations
With the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project was created to develop and test multiple measures of teacher effectiveness. This report provides an overview of classroom observation protocols, including the Mathematical Quality of Instruction (MQI), which was designed at the University of Michigan and Harvard University to measure the mathematical work that takes place in classrooms.
Here’s what we know: Implementing a comprehensive, standards-aligned curriculum is a complex undertaking, even in a typical, in-person classroom. There are new pedagogical approaches to consider, texts and topics to unpack, instructional shifts to practice, academic routines to introduce, and the list goes on.
We all learn in different ways. And when it comes to preparing students with the skills they need to succeed in the 21<sup>st</sup> century, teachers are always looking for new, innovative tools to use in the classroom.
Dan Ryder teaches high school English and humanities, but his students still wind up learning computer-aided design and 3D printing. In his classes at Mt. Blue High School in Farmington, Maine, Ryder has students design and build 3D “fidgets” after learning about the impact of stress and studying social entrepreneurship.
Aug 11, 2017
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