Coaching Corner
Develop and Use Evidence of Student Learning to Inform Instructional Decisions
Essential Coaching Action 9 is to develop and use evidence of student learning to inform instructional decisions. Coaches support teachers and teams to develop specific skills during instruction which use evidence of student learning to plan next steps during instruction. Skills include the strategic use of formative assessments, differentiation and classroom management structures.
- Respond to mistakes and misconceptions during instruction
- Implement formative strategies
- Plan for differentiated instruction
- Develop strong classroom management
This is an example of a student self reflection protocol used for student learning.
This tool is a data analysis protocol to examine trends in student reasoning after a short formative assessment which then asks a teacher to plan for re-engagement using differentiated plans.
This tool can be used with a teacher to reflect on instructional practices with a focus on using evidence of learning to adjust instruction during a lesson.
Listen to Melissa Gotard, Carroll County Public Schools, share how one school improved computational fluency at the lower elementary grades through analyzing mistakes and focusing on the intentional use of classroom routines, and mini-lessons to help students strengthen their attention to precision and checking for accuracy.

- Informative Assessment: Formative Assessment Practices to Improve Mathematics Achievement K-6 (2011)


