Expectations for Teaching and Learning

1. Expectations for Teaching and Learning What is Good teaching?

2. “Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.”- Chinese proverb

4. Develop a common language of effective classroom instruction Goals Understand the scoring rubric for Domain 3: Instruction Define what good teaching looks and feels like in the classroom Dive deeper into the Active Learner Classroom

5. Gallery Walk

6. Domain 3 Instruction • Communicating with Students • Questioning and Discussion Techniques • Engaging Students in Learning • Using Assessment in Instruction • Demonstrating Flexibility and Responsiveness

7. Group Activity • Relocate to new numbered groups • Read the information provided • Devise a graphic organizer, illustration, or other visual or printed teaching aid • Return to “home” groups • Share what you have learned

8. Domain Three Log 3E: Demonstrating Flexibility and Responsiveness 3D: Using Assessment in Instruction 3B: Questioning and Discussion Techniques 3A: Communicating with Students 3C: Engaging Students in Learning

9. Define an Active Learner Students must read, write, discuss, or be engaged in solving problems. Most important, to be actively involved, students must engage in such higher-order thinking tasks as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. “…instructional activities involving students in doing things and thinking about what they are doing.” (Bonwell and Eison, 1987)

10. The Active Learner • Self Reliant • Curious • Respectful • Analytical

11. The Active Learner Classroom • Collaborative • Safe • Nurturing • Active

12. Team Building Activity • Form groups of 3. • Commonalities: Compile a list of the things that every person in the group has in common. • Uniqueness: Compile a list of the things that only applies to one person in the group.

13. Active Learner Classroom Processes Guide on the Side • Student Self-Reliance • Limit Teacher Talk

14. Active Learner Classroom Processes Group Work • Grouping Techniques • Grouping Work Approaches

15. The Active Learner Lesson Plan Anticipatory Set • Stimulate Thinking • Encourage Collaboration • Identify Previous Knowledge

16. The Active Learner Lesson Plan Direct Teaching • Clear and Well Structured • Kept short Direct Teaching Approaches

17. The Active Learner Lesson Plan Individual Practice • How can I provide a new and different context in which the students can practice their new skills? • How can I offer Independent Practice on a repeating schedule so that learning is not forgotten? Individual Practice Approaches

18. The Active Learner Lesson Plan Check for Understanding • The “Back” Techniques • Grant Wiggins’ Checks • Group Check for Understanding Activity

19. You Be The Judge

20. “One of the things we absolutely know about learning is that it is done by the learner.” Charlotte Danielson

21. Sources • Danielson, C. (2011). Enhancing professional practice: A framework for teaching. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.