1. Student Self-Reported Grades/Student Expectations
3 Tips on Student Self-Reported Grades
from Connected Principals
The first strategy from Hattie’s list is “self-reported grades”, so here are three takeaways I wanted to pass along—one from a Hattie summary, one from my own experience, and a third from teachers at my school.
2. Piagetian Programs
Piagetian programs are teaching methods based on Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and his concept of children’s stages of learning. Example for Piagetian programs: Focus on the thinking processes rather than the outcomes and do not impose the adult thinking process on to children.
The Piagetian stages include:
- Sensorimotor stage (new born – 2 years old): Infants learn by the basic senses including seeing, hearing and touching and construct an understanding of the world by coordinating those experiences with physical, motoric actions.
- Pre-operational stage (2 – 7 years old): Children are able to understand basic concepts and symbols, but do not yet understand concrete logic and cannot mentally manipulate information.
- Concrete operational stage (7-12 years old): Children in these ages start solving problems in a more logical fashion but abstract, hypothetical thinking has not yet developed.
- Formal operational stage (12 years old onwards): Children and adolescents develop abstract thinking and are able to perform hypothetical and deductive reasoning.
Hattie states the importance of “knowing the ways in which they [students] think, and how this thinking may be constrained by their stages of development may be most important to how teachers choose materials and task, how the concept of difficulty and challenge can be realized in different tasks, and the importance of developing successive and simultaneous thinking” (2009, p. 43).
3. Response to Intervention
NC MTSS is a multi-tiered framework which promotes school improvement through engaging, research-based academic and behavioral practices. NC MTSS employs a systems approach using data-driven problem-solving to maximize growth for all.
Comprehensive guidance for implementing and sustaining North Carolina's MTSS framework for school improvement can be found at the NC MTSS Guidance LiveBinder link below. Implementation documents and resources can be found here.
4. Teacher Credibility
Teacher Credibility: If You Build It, They Will Learn (Here’s How)
From Dave Stuart Jr.
We’ve all heard the hoo-yah speeches before, the feel-good stuff like, “Be a teacher your students believe in! Be someone they know can take them where they need to go! Make them know that you will make a positive difference in their life! If they believe, they can achieve!!!”
5. Formative Evaluation
from Northwest Evaluation Association
Spotlight on: formative assessment strategies and techniques
- What highly successful teachers do
- Specific techniques to try
- Implementation tools and tips
Here are examples of techniques to support each practice, as well as technology tools that take the pain out of implementation and can be used with a wide range of grade levels and subjects.
6. Microteaching
Micro teaching applies to teacher training and development. Typically, it involves teachers conducting mini-lessons to a small group of students while being recorded and engaging in discussions afterwards about the lessons. The videotaping allows for an intense under-the-microscope review of their teaching.
3 Reasons Why Teachers Should Film Themselves Teaching
By Peter DeWitt
From: Education Week's Blogs
"videoing our classroom could have led to better instruction on my part and more engagement on the part of my students. It's something I talk about quite often as an Instructional Coaching trainer for Jim Knight."
In Knight's book Focus on Teaching: Using Video For High-Impact Instruction, he writes, "When we record ourselves doing our work, we see that reality is very different from what we think. As a result, we are often disappointed by what we see." Knight goes on to write, "At other times, we are delighted by what we see, noticing perhaps that a learning activity truly did engage students authentically. Either way, video is a powerful tool for growth and professional learning."
7. Classroom Discussion
The Big List of Class Discussion Strategies
by Jennifer Gonzales
From The Cult of Pedagogy
When I worked with student teachers on developing effective lesson plans, one thing I always asked them to revise was the phrase “We will discuss.” Every time I saw it in a lesson plan, I would add a note: “What format will you use? What questions will you ask? How will you ensure that all students participate?” I was pretty sure that We will discuss actually meant the teacher would do most of the talking.
8. Comprehension Interventions for Learning Disabled Students
A Guide to the Individualized Education Program
by U.S. Department of Education
From PARENTS: MY CHILD'S SPECIAL NEEDS, U.S. Department of Education
The purpose of this guidance is to assist educators, parents, and state and local educational agencies in implementing the requirements of Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) regarding Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for children with disabilities, including preschool-aged children.
by Office For Civil Rights
From U.S. Department of Education
Section 504 is a federal law designed to protect the rights of individuals with disabilities in programs and activities that receive Federal financial assistance from the U.S. Department of Education
9. Teacher Clarity
Teacher Clarity: A Potent Yet Misunderstood & Often Abused Teaching Strategy
The Australian Society for Evidence Based Teaching
Teacher clarity is critical. Eminent educators, Dylan Wiliam and John Hattie agree that you must be very clear about what you want your students to learn. You need to know exactly what you want them to understand and what you want them to be able to do. More importantly, you need to ensure that your students are equally clear about what they must learn and how they can prove they have learnt it.
10. Feedback
Seven Keys to Effective Feedback
by Grant Wiggins
Advice, evaluation, grades—none of these provide the descriptive information that students need to reach their goals. What is true feedback—and how can it improve learning? Who would dispute the idea that feedback is a good thing? Both common sense and research make it clear: Formative assessment, consisting of lots of feedback and opportunities to use that feedback, enhances performance and achievement.
Glossary of Terms-Top 10
Jaye Parks
Troutman Middle School
Middle School English Language Arts Specialist
Iredell-Statesville Schools
Email: parksj@iss.k12.nc.us
Website: https://jparksblif.weebly.com/
Twitter: @JayeParks1