Teachers of all grade-levels teach students to do things: forming a manuscript letter, sounding out words, writing a coherent paragraph, solving an algebraic equation, completing a science experiment, or reading and comprehending a text. But how do we explicitly teach students in a strategic and systematic way?
This session will focus on how to design an effective lesson to teach students of all ages skills and strategies based on research-based instructional practices associated with student learning and achievement. The components of a lesson are designed to make optimal use of your instructional time, to keep students engaged, and to promote high rates of success through explicitness and scaffolding procedures.
You will also discover best practices for implementing well-designed, distributed, and cumulative practice and learn how to assess student learning through careful monitoring using corrective and affirmative feedback while maintaining an orderly and positive classroom.