Effective Instruction

Effective Instruction: Teachers Make the Difference

Levels: K–12
Length: 1 day
Audience: Administrators, all content-area teachers, coaches, and specialists

Description

This workshop is designed to improve teacher effectiveness in all subject areas and at all grade levels. Participants will broaden their understanding of factors and techniques that facilitate effective classroom instruction.

The workshop emphasizes active learning, and participants watch, learn, and practice techniques to ensure students are highly engaged, motivated, and able to demonstrate understanding of tasks. Video models of expert teachers demonstrate each method taught.

Topics covered include the following:

Delivery of Instruction

• Methods to gain and maintain attention
• Techniques and practices to promote active learning and attentive students
• Specific partner response and processing techniques
• Proven routines for providing corrective feedback, holding students accountable, and monitoring responses

Instructional Planning and Design

• Differences between standards and objectives
• Lesson design components
• Effective usage of direct, explicit instruction
• Scaffolding to support learning
• Methods to intensify instruction

Classroom Management for Active Learning

• Jacob Kounin’s concept of “withitness”—what constitutes a “withit” teacher?
• Seating arrangements that promote engaged learning and interaction
• Management routines that maximize learning time 

Participant Outcomes

• Learn attention-getting, monitoring, and partnering techniques to immediately use in the classroom.
• Acquire a set of specific techniques to foster active learning.
• Become skilled at ways to arrange the classroom for high-intensity instruction.
• Leave with a DVD containing 25 clips of outstanding teachers demonstrating the techniques.

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