BEST PRACTICES

This page is designed to help our team understand and apply the best practices we use in our Essex classrooms each day. Our students can learn and deserve every opportunity to do so.

Each lesson begins and ends with the teacher sharing. posting, and unpacking the learning objective for the day with the students. 

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The Flexible Creativity team, led by       Dr. Dan Mulligan, is dedicated to research, design, and the provision of unparalleled professional development In partnership with our school division, our collective goal is to ensure meaningful and guaranteed learning tools that develop creativity and innovation skills for our teachers and students.

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learning targets

DR. Dan Mulligan Resources

With the active engagement process, students transition from being someone receiving information to someone manipulating, analyzing, evaluating, and creating information. Active engagement drastically impacts a student's ability to retain and apply content. 

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Technology enhanced items represent at least   15–20% of SOL assessments. Because of this, it is necessary to provide students with a "plan of attack" to answer these types of questions. 

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active engagement

Technology enhanced items (TEI) Practice

Our students deserve to receive the best instruction. Research is abundant as to teaching practices that have a high impact on student performance. We rely on these strategies in our instruction. 

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"In four years, an average child in a professional family would accumulate experience with almost 45 million words, an average child in a working-class family 26 million words, and an average child in a welfare family 13 million words" - Hart and Risley (2003). It is essential that we expose our students to rich vocabulary experiences. 

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Graphic organizers (non-linguistic representations, pictorial representations) are just another way to engage students, organize thinking, and promote student discourse. 

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Research based practices

TIERED VOCABULARY

Graphic organizers