Engaging Students with Teacher Clarity

Rationale: Teacher Clarity is more than simply writing a learning intention on a board or listing the success criteria for students to see. In order for Teacher Clarity to have the desired impact on student learning, it is imperative that teachers meaningfully engage students with the components of Teacher Clarity in a way that causes students to internalize their objectives for the day’s learning.

Learning Intention: Teams will explore possible evidence-based engagement strategies to achieve Teacher Clarity in classrooms with a narrow focus on strategies most aligned to achieving schoolwide goals.

Success Criteria: Teams will know they are successful when they…

• have explored relevant strategies that engage students in the application of Teacher Clarity

• have narrowed the focus of possible strategies to the ones best tied to prior implementation data analysis