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Guiding Questions
Guiding Questions
What is the goal of your lesson? What do you want students to understand (knowledge) and be able to do (skills)?
How will you measure success? How will you know if students have met the goal? (assessment)
How will you get students from their current levels of skills/understanding to the target levels? (instruction)
The Gradual Release of Responsibility Instructional Framework is widely accepted as a "best practice" in the world of education.Â
For teachers, the "I do" and "we do" steps of explicit and guided instruction are the highest leverage part of a class. This is the time when teachers introduce new concepts, skills, and/or content and model the thinking required for the upcoming learning activities for the class before guiding the students through whole-group or small-group practice.
The goal of these steps of the gradual release is to build connections between the students' prior knowledge and new concepts and content and help students develop a schema for the work they will be doing independently.
Step by Step Guide
Step by Step Guide
The resources below have some examples and ideas for explicit instruction. Explicitly teaching vocabulary is a key piece of explicit instruction that happens at the beginning of most units and lesson sequences. Take a look at the teaching vocabulary page for more help with introducing new concepts and terms.
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