Grafton Instructional Framework
Feedback
Providing and Communicating Clear Learning Goals
Providing Scales and Rubrics (E1)
Clearly articulating learning goals
Creating scales or rubrics for learning goals
Tracking Student Progress (E2)
Formative scores are used to help teachers and students monitor progress
Using different types of assessments to collect formative scores
Charting student and/or class progress
Celebrating Success (E3)
Final status celebration
Knowledge gain celebration
Appropriate Specific Feedback
Assessment
Informal Assessments (E4)
Confidence Rating Techniques (fist to five, thumbs up)
Response Boards
Formal Assessments (E5)
Selected response and short constructed response items
Student demonstrations
Student generated assessment
Content
Direct Instruction
Recording and Representing Content (E8)
Summaries
Graphic organizers
Academic notebooks
Pictorial notes and pictographs
Using Strategies That Appear in All Types of Lessons
Previewing (E15)
Bell ringer
Brief teacher summaries
Word splashes
Pre-assessments
Reflecting on Learning (E19)
Exit slips
KWL chart
Reflective journals
Organizing Students to Interact (E22)
Think pair share
Pair-check
Group using pre-assessment information
Inside-outside circle
Cooperative learning
Peer response groups
Context
Engagement
Noticing When Students are Not Engaged and Reacting (E23)
Monitoring individual/class engagement
Re-engaging individual student(s)
Brain break
Increasing Response Rates (E24)
Wait time (pre and post questioning)
Question sequencing
Elaborative interrogation (probing)
Paired response
Choral response
Maintaining a Lively Pace (E26)
Hooks
Instructional segments
Pace modulation
Rules and Procedures
Establishing Rules and Procedures (E33)
Post/teach/reteach rules and procedures
Generating rules and procedures with students
Acknowledge Adherence to the Rules and Procedures (E36)
Verbal/nonverbal affirmation
Phone calls, emails and notes to parents
Token economy
Relationships
Understanding Students’ Backgrounds and Interests (E39)
One on one teacher student conferences
Informal class interviews
Surveys/Questionnaires
Instructional Model based on Marzano’s New Art and Science of Teaching
04-InformalAssessmentsoftheWholeClass
05-FormalAssessmentsofIndividualStudents
08-RecordingandRepresentingContent
10-ExaminingSimilaritiesandDifferences.pdf
22-OrganizingStudentstoInteract
23-NoticingWhenStudentsAreNotEngagedandReacting
33-EstablishingRulesandProcedures
36-AcknowledgingAdherencetoRulesandProcedures
39-UnderstandingStudents'BackgroundsandInterests
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