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Organize Your Teaching > Abstract & Concrete > Overview & Tools
This training activity can be used to convene a school in-service session for teachers to learn why and how to make concrete connections to abstract concepts. Related Media and Files: Planning...
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Use this tool to guide discussions, in groups, of ways to use graphics to promote learning. Related Media and Files: Using Graphics to Support Learning (Slideshow and Transcript)
This tool provides a format for brainstorming activities that use understandable representations to teach difficult concepts.
Organize Your Teaching > Higher-Order Questions > Overview & Tools
In teams, use this observation form to observe ongoing questions and responses generated by class instruction and then provide feedback on impact and possible improvement.
Use this tool to develop questions and sentence starters that will help generate deeper explanations from students.
Use this observation chart to convene a school in-service session for teachers to learn about creating classroom structures that utilize student questioning to build explanations. Related...
The discussion questions in this tool can be used to convene a school in-service session for teachers to learn why and how to teach using higher-order questions. Related Media: Using...
Organize Your Teaching > Spacing Learning > Overview & Tools
Use this lesson plan template to design a game that requires students to recall important facts.
This planning chart activity can help to examine the sequence of activities throughout a unit or quarter to map out how key concepts will be revisited. Related Files: Learning Together About...
The materials and worksheet in this tool can be used to convene a school in-service session for teachers to learn why and how to space learning over time. Related Media and Files: Spacing...
Follow the steps in this tool to convene a school in-service session for teachers to learn why and how to use quizzes to support students’ retention of key ideas. Related Media and...
Organize Your Teaching > Examples With Practice > Overview & Tools
Adult advocates can use this planner to collect information about the areas in which the student’s teachers have seen or would like to see improvement. Related Files: Student Handout: Order...
