What We Teach
The effect of curriculum.
What is almost 40 times as cost effective as class-size reduction?
What is improved classroom instruction?
The ability to communicate: both written and oral presentations.
What is the biggest skill people are missing?
Literacy-intensive discipline
What is Social Studies?
NGSS
What is New Generation Science Standards?
A knowledge gap and language gap.
What did Hirsch label the achievement gap?
She helped formalize the essential parts of an effective lesson.
Who is Madeline Hunter?
The average 12th grader reads books written just above this level.
What is 5th grade level?
Stephanie McConcachie and colleagues formula for content area literacy.
What is Task, Text, Talk?
Is integral to "inquiry-based" science.
What is literacy?
Number one reason why students are retained, assigned to special education and why they fail to graduate.
What are under-developed literacy skills?
Based on "the largest ever collection of evidence-based research into what actually works in schools to improve learning"
What is John Hattie's Visible Learning?
Reading and writing grounded in evidence from text, both literary an informational.
What is on e of the "three shifts" in ELA Common Core?
These are almost always argumentative.
What are good questions?
79 percent of students scored at the proficient level when this was consistently implemented in science.
What is writing and note taking?
What is one is on of the "three shifts" in ELA Common Core?
Check for Understanding
What is CFU?
The surest route out of poverty and the limitations that impose themselves on less literate people.
What is wide, abundant reading?
This can be a highly engaging way for teachers to share what they deem most important.
What is Interactive Lecture?
Failure in this subject is among the primary causes of high school and college dropout rates.
What is math?
An underestimated resource for learning essential content and acquiring literacy skills.
What are textbooks?
These may be the greatest obstacle to effective instruction.
What are worksheet?
These would have a swift and transformative effect on student learning in ELA.
What are increases in the amount of reading, discussions and writing?
This should be a routine feature of social studies instruction and assessment.
What is writing?
This type of reading should be model in math instruction.
What is close reading?