Friday, February 13, 2015

Want to improve your efficacy as a teacher?

Ask yourself...

1.       How can I engage every student? How can I recognize missed opportunities for sharing thinking or using question stems to help students go deeper in their thinking? How can I make every student be engaged in “mind’s on” learning?
2.       Do I have lessons or instructional methods that allowed students to opt-out? Am I intentional on making sure no students can hide during learning, and that there is more learning going on than teaching?
3.       Am I asking tough, open-ended questions, then letting  students earn the learning, or do I come to their rescue for fear of letting them make a mistake or feel bad? Do I let them productively struggle?

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