1. Strategic Teaching Professional Development
Tuscaloosa County Schools

2. Agenda Welcome/Introductions Before: KWL – Activate Prior Knowledge
During: Jigsaw – Strategic Lesson Plans
After: KWL and 3-2-1

3. Outcomes Identify the elements of strategic teaching
Analyze and evaluate a strategic lesson

4. Strategic Lesson Plan Before During After Purpose:
To activate prior knowledge about the topic.
To respond to text and discussion through dialogue.
Purpose: To facilitate review and level of processing of the topic.
Strategy: KWL
Strategy: Jigsaw Lesson Plans
Strategy: KWL/3-2-1
Procedure: Participants will indicate what they know about strategic teaching, write their answers, and discuss their answers with partners.
Procedure: 1. Participants will examine lesson plans and identify strategic teaching elements.
Procedure: Participants will identify what they have learned about strategic teaching and discuss with partners.
Formative Assessment: Observation and responses on graphic organizers.

5. Before Strategy: KWL
First, on sticky notes, write what you “know” about strategic teaching.
Second, on sticky notes, write what you “wonder” or “want to know” about strategic teaching.
Pair up with a partner to talk about the answers.
As we discuss in the large group, place your sticky notes on the appropriate sections of the KWL chart.

6. Essential Questions How can students be engaged in a lesson?
What methods or activities most engage students?
How can lessons be designed for increased student engagement?
Discuss after recording answers.

7. Strategic Teaching
As educators, we are ineffective when our students are actively engaged in a meaningless task or passively involved in a meaningful one.
AU Regional ARI Team 2011

8. THERE ARE FIVE COMPONENTS OF STRATEGIC TEACHING.
AU Regional ARI Team 2011

9. ONE Learning Outcome
Decide what it is the students will be able to do TODAY as a result of this lesson. State the outcome in student friendly terms.
“The first step to determining an outcome is to examine the course of study objective standard for the particular subject.
Next, look for the accompanying objectives.
Most importantly, decide on the daily outcome that will help students meet the standard.
Finally, think about the verb used in the daily outcome and determine what assessment will clearly support mastery of this outcome.” 9

10. Two Instructional Practices in Every Lesson
1. Chunking
2. Student Discussions

11. THREE Parts to a Strategic Lesson
Before
During
After
AU Regional ARI Team 2011
“Just as you should eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner each day – each lesson should have three parts. Before sets the stage for the lesson, during enables students to engage in the text, and after provides opportunities to make connections and assess if the outcome of the lesson has been met. Strong, seamless connections among the three parts of a lesson are imperative.”

12. FOUR Steps to Explicit Instruction
I Do
We Do
Y’all Do
The fourth ingredient for healthy literacy is the use of explicit instruction. The teacher models the skill and strategy (I Do). Then, the teacher and the students practice the skill and the strategy as a group (We Do). Next, the students work together using the skill/strategy (Y’all Do). After the teacher is sure the students can use the skill/strategy independently, then the students do so independently (I Do). These four ingredients in explicit instruction will provide gradual release of responsibility of the learning and should be done sequentially.
You Do
Self

13. FIVE Components of Active Literacy
“Five ingredients for active literacy are needed for healthy learning. Every day, students should be given opportunities to talk with each other, listen to each other, read and write in meaningful ways, and investigate content.”

14. During Strategy: Lesson Plans
Read the lesson plan and construct your analysis of it as a strategic lesson. Discuss it with your fellow group members. Use the chart to record your reflections.
When time is called share your expert analysis with the whole group.

15. After Strategy: KWL K W L What do you know about strategic teaching?
What do you wonder/want to know about strategic teaching?
What have you learned about strategic teaching?

16. Exit Slip: 3-2-1 Write 3 important details. Make 2 connections.
Ask 1 question.

17. "A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."
~Thomas Carruthers