Handout: My Most Effective Teaching Practices

Describe your top five most effective instructional practices. 

Possible discussion questions as the participants look at the information posted on the wall.

What do you notice?

What do you wonder? (Hopefully, this question elicits responses about “How do we know its effective?”, but if not, it can be asked directly… What evidence do we have that it is effective? [should lead to a standards discussion…] Examples of ideas to be confronted: It’s in our materials, Pinterest, Teachers pay Teachers, and it’s always been that way,

What research supports this practice? (leads to the next part of the activity)

Read information on Action Overview: Explore Effective Instructional Practices content area.

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Reconcile the Evidence Based Practice information with previous information.

Essential Question: Identify EBP(s) that will be the focus of improvement efforts.

Effective Practices – Part II