Instruction
Recommended Practice: Maintain a consistent focus on improving instruction.
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Increasing Student Engagement for Instructional Change
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This presentation shows how Middleton High School implemented strategies to increase student engagement in academics. The school's principal describes strategies to increase attendance, offer more...
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Additional Goals for Improving Instruction
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Listen to two elementary principals describe their schools' focus for improving instruction. These schools focused on reading, writing, and math, and centering instruction on state...
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Setting High Standards
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Listen to the audio to hear an approach for determining students' mathematics grades at Waterford High School. This approach helps ensure that students reach proficiency on all math standards....
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Teachers Implement Changes to Improve Instruction
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A music, special education, and fifth-grade teacher discuss strategies that they have learned and implemented successfully in their classrooms. The teachers use state assessment results to shape...
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Improving High School Instruction
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The chair of a high school science department shares instructional strategies that teachers use to engage students in learning. Teachers need to have a clear objective, regularly check for...
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Observing Instruction to Build Capacity
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The chair of the school's math department conducts a coaching session based on classroom observation of a core algebra class. She acknowledges good instructional practices and offers solutions for...
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Instructional Tours
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At Waterford High School, teachers visit each other’s classrooms to learn new instructional strategies. Teachers may use structured forms that detail the instructional norms at the school. These...
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Using Data to Improve Instruction
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The superintendent of Richmond Public Schools describes the district's approach to helping schools collect, understand, and use student data to improve instruction. The district meets with school...
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December Walkthrough
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This instructional coherence protocol guides administrator walkthroughs of elementary school classrooms. Administrators note evidence indicating that expectations of classroom environment and...
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DEEPER
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This sample material describes a schoolwide instructional model that contains the basic components of rigorous literacy-based instruction in all content areas. Related Files: Jackson...
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Strategic Instructional Plan
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This worksheet provides a template for teachers to outline their instructional strategies for other staff. Teachers are asked to describe how a concept was taught and determine the percentage of...
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Tennessee State Assessment Results Score Report
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Staff collaboratively analyzes data reports such as these from the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) to determine strengths and weaknesses in student learning. Related...
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