1. Vice President of Instruction Nash Community College
Pedagogy Matters: An Instructional Framework for College Instruction or Creating a Path for Student Success in the Classroom
Dr. Trent Mohrbutter
Vice President of Instruction
Nash Community College

2. Warm Up Complete your name tent 4 corners Your instructional M.O.
How you taught or were taught
The most common instruction in higher ed.
Instructors at your institution
Content v. teaching
Learning styles

3. Essential Question Objective(s)
How do we create and maintain a culture of:
Student engagement,
Positive classroom environment,
Learning (for all) first?

4. Warm up Review-Preview: 3SDAC Discuss Share Close
Agenda
Warm up
Review-Preview: 3SDAC
Discuss
Share
Close

5. Set… The learning environment
Welcoming
Reassuring
Friendly
Supportive
Trusting
Safe
Collaborative
. Lemov (2010) suggests that instructors who build non-transactional relationships, those that don’t involve rewards or consequences, demonstrate that they care about their students on a personal and individual basis, and are able to create a positive classroom culture.

6. State… The learning Why is “this” important? EQ
How “this” will apply
Learning objectives/outcomes
What will they be expected to know as a result of “this”?
An agenda
Create a path of learning activities. A blue print for a successful lesson
Objectives state what you want the students to be able to do at the end of the lesson, and what they are responsible for learning. An effective assignment must have structure and be precise, they must state clearly and simply what the student are to accomplish.
The first days of school, Wong (2001)

7. Scaffold… The knowledge
RPR
Link prior knowledge and prior experiences
KWL (Know-Want to know-Learned)
Demonstrate and own their knowledge
and learning
Just as scaffolding is used to support buildings during the construction process, educational scaffolding provides support for students during the learning process (Rutherford, 2008).

8. Differentiate… The Instruction
Strategies=Engagement
Lecture:
PPT: quality v. quantity
Collaboration: Jigsaw, TPS
Direct Questioning/wait time
Academic reading/marking the text
Flipped classroom
Learning style: Quick survey
Faculty who differentiate their instruction and use diverse teaching methodologies create learning environments that increase the likelihood of meeting the needs of most, if not all students. A positive change for learners is dependent upon a number of things, including the ability to implement best practice through differentiated instruction (Pearce, 2011).

9. Framework of Engagement
Instructor
Content
Student
Peers

10. Direct questioning Report outs Quick writes Exit tickets
Assess… the learning
Direct questioning
Report outs
Quick writes
Exit tickets
The best college teachers (Bain, 2004) use assessment to gauge their own efforts, and avoid judging students based on arbitrary standards in the process. FA strategies can be implemented throughout a lesson activity, and can be used to gather feedback

11. Close… the lesson What have they learned
What might need to be retaught
What is still needed
What will come next
Plan the next lesson
The EQ…

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