Which productive Instructional Strategies do you want to strengthen? How can we support you?

• Meaningful work that builds on students’ prior knowledge and experiences and actively engages them in rich, engaging tasks that help them achieve conceptual understanding and transferable knowledge and skills  

• Inquiry as a major learning strategy, thoughtfully interwoven with explicit instruction and well-scaffolded opportunities to practice and apply learning  

• Well-designed collaborative learning opportunities that encourage students to question, explain, and elaborate their thoughts and co-construct solutions

• Ongoing diagnostic assessments and opportunities to receive timely and helpful feedback, develop and exhibit competence, and revise work to improve;  Opportunities to develop metacognitive skills through planning and management of complex tasks, self-and peer- -assessment, and reflection on learning. 

Linda Darling-Hammond, Lisa Flook, Channa Cook-Harvey, Brigid Barron & David Osher (2020) Implications for educational practice of the science of learning and development, Applied Developmental Science, 24:2, 97-140, DOI: 10.1080/10888691.2018.1537791       Applied Developmental Science Article