Teachers will:
engage in a cycle of observation, feedback, and collaborative work to improve their instructional practice and advance student outcomes.
ensure students remain actively engaged in lessons. Engagement includes the following attributes:
Students can explain what they are learning and why they are learning it.
Students respond to higher-ordered questions and initiate probing questions when they don’t understand.
Students participate in meaningful activities that make connections to background knowledge and perspectives.
Students have some autonomy to apply what they have learned to a “real world” context.
Students work effectively with others to think critically about their learning, communicate new ideas and solve problems.
Students will be provided with opportunities to process their thinking in pairs and through small group learning opportunities.
Collaborative Teams will:
engage in an ongoing process of identifying, adopting and improving instructional best practices related to their grade level or subject-specific content.
If teachers utilize the instructional (GEARS) cycle as the focus of their work, ensure that all students actively participate in meaningful and engaging classroom experiences, and collaborate to identify and share the most impactful instructional practices, then student achievement will improve.