Midterm (book notes) Flashcards
(48 cards)
Streamline observations by designing materials and space so that you’re looking in the same, consistent place every time for the data you need.
Standardize the Format
Create an environment where your students feel safe making and discussing mistakes, so you can spend less time hunting for errors and more time fixing them.
Culture of Error
Turn “I don’t know” into success by ensuring that students who won’t try or can’t answer practice getting it right.
No Opt Out
When you respond to answers in class, hold out for answers that are “all-the-way right” or all the way to your standards of rigor.
Right is Right
Reward “right” answers with harder questions.
Stretch It
Help your students practice responding in a format that communicates the worthiness of their ideas.
Format Matters
Embrace - rather than apologize - rigorous content, academic challenge, and the hard work necessary to scholarship.
Without Apology
As you plan a lesson, plan what students will be doing at each point in class.
Double Plan
Name the Steps
Break down complex tasks into steps that form a path for student mastery.
Control the Game
Ask students to read aloud frequently, but manage the process to ensure expressiveness, accountability, and engagement.
Circulate
Move strategically around the room during all parts of the lesson.
At Bats
Because succeeding once or twice at a skill won’t bring mastery, give your students lots and lots of practice mastering knowledge or skills.
Exit Ticket
End each class with an explicit assessment of your objective that you can use to evaluate your (and your students’) success.
All Hands
Leverage hand raising to positively impact pacing. Manage and vary the ways that students raise their hands, as well as the methods you use to call on them.
Work the Clock
Measure time - your greatest resource as a teacher - intentionally, strategically, and often visibly to shape both your and your students’ experience in the classroom.
Every Minute Matters
Respect students’ time by spending every minute productively.
Wait Time
Allow students time to think before answering. If they aren’t productive with that time, narrate them toward being more productive.
Cold Call
Call on students regardless of whether they’ve raised their hands.
Call and Response
Ask your class to answer questions in unison from time to time to build energetic, positive engagement.
Pepper
Use Pepper as a fast-paced, vocal review to build energy and actively engage your class.
Show Call
Create a strong incentive to complete writing with quality and thoughtfulness by publicly showing and revising student writing - regardless of who volunteers to share.
Front the Writing
Arrange lessons so that writing comes earlier in the process to ensure that students think rigorously in writing.
Threshold
Meet your students at the door, setting expectations before they enter the classroom.
Turn and Talk
Encourage students to better formulate their thoughts by including short, contained pair discussions—but make sure to design them for maximum efficiency and accountability.
