WELCOME Improving Instruction in the 21 st Century

Our Learning Targets I can explain the characteristics of effective instruction and how students learn. I can identify instructional strategies that engage students in 21 st century skills (critical thinking, communication, collaboration). I can design a system for monitoring the instructional strategies.

Learning Results BCHS 2009 (P/D %)2010 (P/D %) Read4882 Math2934 Sci4743 Soc3747 Writ2741

Rubber Meets the Road classroom instruction curriculum alignment Motivating students master schedule Monitoring progress unit planning

Instruction Makes a Difference Teaching has 6-10 times the impact on achievement than all other factors combined. (Mortimore and Sammons, 1987) Numerous studies demonstrate that two teachers with the same socioeconomic population can achieve starkly different results on the same test. (Marzano, 2003) Three years of effective teaching accounts for an improvement of percentile points. (Sanders & Horn, 1994)

Instruction Makes a Difference Five years of instruction from an above- average teacher could eliminate the achievement gap on some state assessments. (Haycock, 2005) Improved classroom instruction is the prime factor to produce student achievement gains. (Odden and Wallace, 2003)

Effective Instruction Read “Five Characteristics of Effective Instruction.” With your partner(s), complete the Frayer Model organizer for your assigned characteristic. Summarize your findings in the space on the Phases of Thinking and Learning Graphic Organizer.

Ineffective Instruction “We hear, we forget. We see, we remember. We do, we understand.”

How Students Learn Learning involves a process of discovery and a process of mastery. –discovery involves formulating explanations, making predictions, and solving problems –mastery involves developing a foundation of factual knowledge and making certain skills automatic. Learning is most successful when it is an active and self- conscious process. –more than a process in which a student receives and assimilates information passively. –it is an active process in which a student must access information, by extracting, analyzing, evaluating, organizing, and synthesizing information, so that it can be readily retrieved and used in problem solving.

Learning and Innovation Skills Learning and Thinking Skills are comprised of: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills Communication Skills Creativity and Innovation Skills Collaboration Skills Information and Media Literacy Skills Contextual Learning Skills

Congruent vs. Correlated— Rewind “What gets taught is the strongest single predictor of gains in achievement,” but… “regardless of what a state policy or a district curriculum spells out, the classroom teacher decides… what topics to cover.” (Results Now, Mike Schmoker)

Appropriate Strategies Engage students in the learning process Require students to participate in thinking and processing Provide practice for 21 st century skills Meet the characteristics of effective instruction

Monitoring and Feedback Teaching for Understanding/Stu dent-centered Instruction allows students to Apply knowledge and skills Connect to real world, their lives, other content areas Make analogies Represent topic in new ways Process information presented in lesson Explain their thinking Support or defend answers Find evidence in examples Communicate their understanding Other __________________________________________

Monitoring and Feedback Authentic Literacy and Student Engagement Aligned with learning targets presented to students Reading Writing Technology Lecture Discussion Performance/Product (hands-on) Worksheet Cooperative group Other ________________________________________ Teaching for Understanding & Student-Centered (Characteristics of Effective Instruction) Instruction allows students to Apply knowledge/skills authentically Support or defend answers Process information presented in lesson Explain their thinking Communicate their understanding Find evidence in examples Take part in investigations/inquiry Connect to real world, their lives, other content areas Other_____________________________________

Monitoring and Feedback Easy to imbed, add-on Think about instructional outcomes Collegial Observations Strategy Day Strategy Week

Our Learning Targets I can explain the characteristics of effective instruction and how students learn. I can identify instructional strategies that engage students in 21 st century skills (critical thinking, communication, collaboration). I can design a system for monitoring the instructional strategies.