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均是精品，欢迎下载学习！！！ 欢迎下载百度文库资源 资料均是本人搜集 均是精品，欢迎下载学习！！！ How Walkthroughs Open Doors Margery B. Ginsberg and Damon Murphy Frequent, brief, unscheduled walkthroughs can foster a school culture of collaborative learning and dialogue. Every Thursday, the associate principal at Spring Woods High School in Houston, Texas, spends 20 minutes walking through the schools five algebra classrooms during first period. He notes each classrooms layout, the curriculum for the day, and the level of engagement among students. He speaks with one or two students in each class, asking them whether they understand the material and know where to get extra help. He notices similarities and differences among the classrooms and how teachers strategies influence student learning. Returning to his office, he writes some quick e-mails: Way to go! to a teacher who was doing a particularly great job, and a message to the math department chair about how the visits went. The e-mails are typically brief and positive, but they may also contain a question, such as, Would you mind if I share your approach to group work with our new teachers? or What have you found to be successful with the students who were messing around by the window? If their behavior is typical and youd like to share ideas, Id enjoy putting our heads together. Sometimes he places a sticky note in a teachers box with a Thank you! and a positive observation. During a walkthrough of English classes on another day, the associate principal gets caught up in watching a dramatic presentation of portions of King Lear in a 12th grade class. In addition to performing modern-day renditions of the play, students are reciting material that they have written themselves in response to a scene that they had studied. Moving on, the associate principal visits another 12th grade English class that is also successfully studying King Lear, but in a more traditional way. That afternoon, he sends an e-mail to the more traditional teacher stating that he appre