Evidence of Understanding
Students had a greater need to pay attention because they did not know if they would be called on.
What is share their perspective?
Students were able to experience soliloquies, monologues, dialogue, and asides from this T.V. show.
What is Grey's Anatomy?
Students are less likely to engage if they think that their efforts will result in another failure.
What is if they have a history of failure in school?
Ferguson found that students are more likely to work hard...
What is if they believe their teachers care about them?
Having the teachers plan out activities allowed them to support and be supported by each other as they worked to improve the students learning.
What is students have greater academic success with lesson objective?
Teachers asking questions throughout their lesson.
What is to encourage students' responses?
Teachers provided instruction that was responsive to, and reflective of, the cultures and backgrounds of the students they served.
What is culturally responsive pedagogy?
The teachers asked additional questions until students used the terms.
What is if students did not respond with the key vocabulary?
Educators consistently interacting with students on a personal level
What is educators demonstrating their concern and commitment?
Teachers working together to plan lessons that their students will be engaged in their instruction and master the content.
What is planning for effective instruction?
Teachers frequently use this to see with their students think about important concepts, processes, and ideas.
What is student writing?
Students are more likely to understand and master lesson objectives.
What is content that relates to the students' interests, backgrounds, cultures, and prior knowledge?
Teachers allowed students to practice skills independently.
What is only when they knew students would be successful?
Way educators acknowledged and celebrated student accomplishments
What is verbal acknowledgments and posting their work in the classrooms and hallways?
This was designed to provided teachers opportunities to familiarize themselves with important concepts, see them used in the classroom, ask questions, try implementing it, receive feedback, ask more questions and refine implementation.
In high-performing schools, they use this strategy to get feedback from all of their students in the classroom.
What is using individual whiteboards?
At James Pace Early College High School, teachers frequently provided a word or idiom in Spanish.
What is to help students understand the concept being discussed in English?
Teachers helped students become comfortable using the vocabulary in the lessons.
What is teachers integrated the vocabulary into their speaking vocabulary?
In the schools they studied, students from all demographics mastered challenging curriculum in math, science, social studies, English, and many other subjects.
What is teachers making lessons that students thought were engaging, interesting, and inspiring?
Principles and other school leaders go into teachers' classrooms and evaluate how they were able to help ensure that their lesson was effective and engaging.
What is observing instruction and providing feedback?
Teachers in high-performing schools use these strategies to see if the students understood the lesson content.
What are myriad questioning techniques, writing tasks, projects, performances, and tests?
What is see, touch, hear, and experience?
Teachers are able to monitor the students' readiness to perform tasks independently
What is by asking questions, engaging in discussions, asking students to perform tasks, and correcting misconceptions?
Teachers recorded their oral reading on iPods, using the internet to find and critique original source documents, making and using spreadsheets, and more.
What is using technology to help inspire engagement and mastery?
In high-performing schools, leaders shaped teacher collaboration discussions in ways that helped teachers plan the classroom implementation of professional development ideas.
What is ensuring synergy among planning, professional development, observation, and feedback?