Walker Elementary School (Tuscaloosa, AL) Instructional Round *Canceled*

Walker Elementary School Instructional Round

*For non PCN members, this event will be $75 per person*

Walker Elementary is a K-5 school located in the Northern corner of Tuscaloosa County.  It has a student population of approximately 720. Recently, Walker Elementary was designated as a ‘2020 State School of Character’.  Professional learning is continuing to build on Ron Berger’s Leaders of Their Own Learning with an additional focus on metacognition as defined in Social and Emotional Learning by Fisher, Frey, and Smith.  The problem of practice will focus on strategies to enhance and encourage student self-monitoring and critical thinking.  These strategies include the use of exemplars, metacognitive modeling, critiques, and descriptive feedback to make learning visible.