1. Welcome
Get ready for active participation and sharing powerful instructional strategies.
Susan Gustafson Follmer Principal, International School of Monagas, Maturin, Venezuela

2. School-wide Instruction Practices That Rock
My goal Model the interactive lecture Honor the expertise in this room Give us a plan for Monday

3. Learning Objectives: Participants will…
Be able to articulate five instructional practices with big payoffs for student learning.
Identify what they will do differently on Monday.
Leave with resources to keep learning.

4. How has instruction changed in the past thirty years?

5. How has instruction changed in the past thirty years?
Digital Foreigners
Rows
Textbooks
Some Learn
I like teaching about dinosaurs
Sit and Get
Digital Natives
Circles
www.
None Are Left Behind
Aligned Curriculum
Facilitator of learning

6. What’s your Theory of Action about instruction?

7. What are powerful five powerful instructional practices for school-wide implementation?
Setting the Stage
Clear and Articulated Learning Objective
Cooperative Learning
Helping Students Develop Understanding
Go Visual
Summarizing
Helping Students Extend and Apply Learning
Identifying Similarities and Differences

8. Setting the Stage: Clear, written and Articulated Learning Objectives
Students will be able to….
Content
Language

9. Content Objectives
Create
Reflect
Content
Organize
Evaluate
Contrast

10. Language Objectives Language Write Clearly articulate Explain Debate
Rewrite

11. Setting the Stage: Cooperative Learning
What is it?
Positive Interdependence
Individual Accountability
Best of Brain Research
Students talk and reflect
Students go deeper with the content
Meets social emotional needs

12. Setting the Stage: Cooperative Learning
How?
Keep size small, <6
Assign roles
Heterogeneous

13. Helping Students Develop Understanding: Go Visual
Non-Linguistic Representations
Vision Trumps ALL other senses
10/60 Rule
John Medina’s Brain Rules
Information stored in language or images
Examples:
Manipulatives
Mental Pictures
Kinesthetic Activities

14. Go Visual with Graphic Organizers
Visual Tools by David Hyerle

15. Helping Students Develop Understanding: Summarizing
Sort, Select and Combine Information
Reading Strategies for Reciprocal Teaching
Summarize
Question
Clarify
Predict
Notetaking: Model it and Teach it
Rule Based Summarizing Strategy
Take out what is not important and repetitive
Find or create topics and subtopics

16. Helping Students Extend and Apply: Identifying Similarities and Differences
Facilitate don’t tell but guide
CHUNKING: Comparing and Contrasting
CHUNKING: Classifying
CHUNKING: Creating Metaphors
CHUNKING: Creating Analogies A:B :: C:D

17. What will I do differently on Monday to prepare my students for a successful tomorrow?

18. Resources http://www.successatthecore.com/ http://www.edutopia.org/