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Core Teaching Skills and resource Connection Guides
Core Teaching Skills and resource Connection Guides
Core Practices for Performance Area 1: Learning Environment
Core Practices for Performance Area 1: Learning Environment
- Procuring and using displays, visual aids, props, language cues that reflect students’ cultures and backgrounds
- Investing time in knowing individual students and informing relationships to best support their learning.
- Bringing multiple perspectives to the discussion of content including attention to learners’ personal, family, and community experiences and cultural norms
- Explicitly teaching strategies that help students link effort to achievement
Core Practices for Performance Area 2: Engagement in Learning
Core Practices for Performance Area 2: Engagement in Learning
- Developing objectives that are manageable, worthy, and appropriate for a lesson.
- Multiple opportunities for practice and feedback using peers’ ideas, checking student understanding, etc.
- Developing and/or using a variety of appropriately demanding and differentiated instructional materials and activities, such as texts, questions, problems, learning experiences and assignments.
- Considering students’ strengths, interests, needs, and IEP goals (where applicable) to develop learning goals and prepare lessons.
Core Practices for Performance Area 3: Maximizing Learning
Core Practices for Performance Area 3: Maximizing Learning
- Planning for questions at different levels of cognitive challenge
- Designing assignments that include multiple ways for students to demonstrate their learning (examples: writing, reading, speaking and student discourse)
- Providing opportunities for students to learn, practice, and master academic language
- Using knowledge of content and students to match students to relevant and appropriate assignments
Core Practices for Performance Area 1: Learning Environment
Core Practices for Performance Area 1: Learning Environment
- Uses various strategies to maintain attention.
- Using grouping roles and arrangements (group sizes, students with diverse needs and perspectives) that are matched to content and learners to maximize student understanding and learning efficiency with the objective
- Using efficient routines and procedures
- Investing time in knowing individual students and informing relationships to best support their learning
Core Practices for Performance Area 2: Engagement in Learning
Core Practices for Performance Area 2: Engagement in Learning
- Using multiple ways to explain and share content (for example: model the skill, provide an exemplar, compare or contrast, etc.)
- Varying teacher role in the instructional process (e.g. instructor, facilitator, coach) based on content, instructional purpose, and needs of students
- Differentiating instructional experiences and assessments
- Planning and implementing multiple opportunities for students to practice the skills they are expected to master in the lesson
Core Practices for Performance Area 3: Maximizing Learning
Core Practices for Performance Area 3: Maximizing Learning
- Designing assignments that include multiple ways for students to demonstrate their learning. (writing, reading, speaking, and student discourse)
- Providing opportunities for students to learn, practice, and master academic language
- Using knowledge of content and students to match students to relevant and appropriate assignments
- Planning for questions at different levels of cognitive challenge
Core Practices for Performance Area 1: Learning Environment
Core Practices for Performance Area 1: Learning Environment
- Investing time in knowing individual students and informing relationships to best support their learning
- Providing positive reinforcement
- Bringing multiple perspectives to the discussion of content including attention to learners’ personal, family, and community experiences and cultural norms
- Uses calling patterns that invites all students to participate
Core Practices for Performance Area 2: Engagement in Learning
Core Practices for Performance Area 2: Engagement in Learning
- Checking whether students understand the key content needed to master the lesson at key points
- Providing opportunities for students to respond to and build on their peers’ ideas
- Developing and/or using informal and formal assessments aligned to learning objectives that yield usable data on students’ progress toward grade-level standards
- Making connections between lesson objective/content and content and learning from other lessons or prior knowledge
Core Practices for Performance Area 3: Maximizing Learning
Core Practices for Performance Area 3: Maximizing Learning
- Posing questions or providing lesson activities that require students to support their thinking through citing evidence and/or explaining their thinking
- Considering students’ needs to match the level of questions to ask or level of prompting to provide
- Using knowledge of content to design assignments that support students to extend their learning
- Asking questions to stimulate discussion that serves different purposes (e.g. probing for learning and understanding, helping learners articulate their ideas and thinking processes,stimulating curiosity, and helping guide students to question)
Core Practices for Performance Area 1: Learning Environment
Core Practices for Performance Area 1: Learning Environment
- Investing time in knowing individual students and informing relationships to best support their learning
- Using voice and presence to maintain authority and caring for students
- Bringing multiple perspectives to the discussion of content including attention to learners’ personal, family, and community experiences and cultural norms
- Providing specific, concrete, sequential and observable directions for behavior and academics
Core Practices for Performance Area 2: Engagement in Learning
Core Practices for Performance Area 2: Engagement in Learning
- Varying teacher role in the instructional process (e.g. instructor, facilitator, coach) based on content, instructional purpose, and needs of students
- Considering students’ cultures and language skills when developing learning objectives and activities
- Modeling a process for students to provide feedback themselves and to each other
- Providing opportunities for students to respond to and build on their peers’ ideas
Core Practices for Performance Area 3: Maximizing Learning
Core Practices for Performance Area 3: Maximizing Learning
- Designing assignments that include multiple ways for students to demonstrate their learning (examples: writing, reading, speaking and student discourse)
- Explicitly teaches students criteria for constructing arguments and/or supporting opinions
- Posing questions or providing lesson activities that require students to support their thinking through citing evidence and/or explaining their thinking
- Allow think time for responses
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