Period 4RM 214
Mastery0
Fidelity0
Rapport0
Bandwidth0
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47:00
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E next beatQ checkR reteach
The Observation
SHIFTHold for Withitness

Bell to Bell

SLICE 001 — "ONE PERIOD" · 4th Period · 47 minutes · 12 students

Withitness (Kounin, 1970) — "the teacher's awareness of student behavior in all areas of the classroom at all times." Hold SHIFT to become aware of student behavior in all areas of the classroom at all times.

It costs Bandwidth. The lesson does not pause while you use it. And your furniture casts blind spots — the cabinet and the bookshelf hide what is behind them, so some things can only be seen from somewhere else in the room.

W A S DMove around the room DRAGLook SHIFTWithitness (hold) CLICKOpen the intervention menu on anything you have spotted EAdvance to the next beat of the lesson QCheck for understanding — find out instead of assuming RReteach — say it a second way, for the people who need it TRoom Temp — one cheap glance at the whole room ESCClose menu
LEFT THUMBWalk. The stick appears where you put it down. DRAGLook, anywhere on the right HOLDWithitness, on the pad bottom-right — you can hold WAIT at the same time TAPAnything you have spotted, to open the intervention menu STRIPThe lesson keys along the bottom; RUBRIC opens the look-fors

Mastery is not a bar you fill. It is the average of what twelve people understand, and each of them has their own number. Deliver from the front strip and those numbers climb. A kid with a phone under the desk is not learning anything, which is what the phone is actually costing you.

Check for understanding to see the comprehension aura in Withitness. It goes stale in about a minute. You are always deciding whether you have time to know.

Someone with a clipboard visits some periods and not others. Sometimes it is on the calendar days ahead; more often it is nine seconds of warning. Either way the rubric she brought will tell you what it wants, and it is not the same five things every time.

First, the seating chart. Drag a name onto another name. Where somebody sits decides who they can reach, who settles them, what you can see from the front, and how much of you they get. None of that is written on the chart. You learn it by teaching them, and it is still there next period.

Seating Chart

Post-Conference

The Bell