DI Rules of thumb
Highly effective teachers teach what or who first.
What is the student?
See students as what as well as part of the class as a whole and consider needs in both contexts.
What are individuals?
Teachers need to maintain high what?
What is expectations?
Everyone feels welcome and does what to everyone else feeling welcome
What is contribution?
Whole class activities include teaching and what kind of skill.
What is modeling?
All learners would likely fare better if lessons focused on key ideas, meanings, and "stories" that connect what.
What are student's experiences?
Give students a what in as many aspects of their learning as possible.
What is voice?
The teacher creates a positive, invitational learning what.
What is environment?
Mutual respect is what.
What is non-negotiable?
Individual or Personalized Activities Reading/listening include: sense-making, practice/skill application, homework, skill/interest centers, product/performance tasks, independent inquiry formative and what other assessment.
What is summative?
Think of assessment as what for your thinking and planning.
What is a road map?
Think about the instructional time and include what.
What is flexibility?
The teacher does what with students in learning.
What is engages?
Students feel what in the classroom.
What is safe?
Teacher-Student Conferences include: formative assessment, goal setting and planning, guidance and mentoring along with what?
What is troubleshooting?
Create what that engage all students in critical and creative thinking.
What are lessons?
Find a wide range of what to help students connect with important ideas and skills.
What is materials?
The teacher teaches for what.
What is success?
There is a pervasive expectation of what.
What is growth?
Small-group activities can include: sense-making, teaching/modeling skills, shared reading, planning/task execution and what.
What is group inquiry?
Design lessons to be what for all students.
What is engaging?
Diagnose individual student what and craft learning experiences in response to diagnoses.
What are needs?
The teacher engages in what kind of practice.
What is reflective?
The teacher teaches for what.
What is success?
Groups will work better if students know what to do, how to do it, what is _________ of group members, and what will constitute quality in both working processes and in products.
What is expected?