Help students understand content and resolve confusion
Indicator: Explaining Clearly
Indicator: Explaining Clearly
Explaining concepts clearly & anticipating common areas of difficulty.
Strategy Recommendation
Establish success criteria and model process of unpacking criteria as you reflect on what a task or assignment requires.
Strategy Recommendation
Use introducing and exploring ideas thinking routines to prompt students to explain ideas clearly.
Strategy Recommendation
Differentiate content with appropriate scaffolds for small groups of students based on anticipated misconceptions.
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Elementary + Secondary:
Indicator: Checking for Understanding
Indicator: Checking for Understanding
Using a variety of strategies to check for understanding and clear up confusion.
Strategy Recommendation
Create a protocol for students to reflect on their learning within your lesson. This protocol will support students in selecting the level of support to reach their learning goal.
Strategy Recommendation
Use a variety of formative assessment strategies that are student-led to check student understanding throughout a lesson.
Strategy Recommendation
Use a variety of formative assessment strategies that are either teacher-directed or teacher-supported to check student understanding throughout a lesson.
Strategy Recommendation
Offer flexibility in when students take an assessment or exit ticket (allow students to reflect on when they are ready).
Resources
Elementary + Secondary:
Resources
Elementary + Secondary:
Indicator: Providing Constructive Feedback
Indicator: Providing Constructive Feedback
Providing useful, timely, and specific feedback.
Strategy Recommendation
Use 5-10 min 1:1 conferences for students to reflect on their level of mastery and get advice on how to solve problems they’re facing.
Strategy Recommendation
Create the structure for students to meet with one another in small groups to collaboratively share feedback aligned to success criteria and standards.
Strategy Recommendation
Meet with students 1:1 or small groups to share feedback aligned to success criteria and standards.
Strategy Recommendation
Create a playlist or choice board with activities or assignments for students to work on throughout the lesson, week, and/or unit with built-in stops where students need to receive teacher feedback before moving on to the next task.
Resources
Elementary + Secondary:
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