Creating Successful Classrooms:  Pedagogical Changes that Work!

Support Resources:

Session Handout:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/134LkFhnXt3HeZAoKptMKBzBGhyJhe6In/view?usp=sharing 

Support Materials:

Student Discourse

The Importance of Student Discourse in the Classroom:  https://www.gwaea.org/2022/12/19/the-importance-of-student-discourse-in-the-classroom/ 

How to Empower Every Student to Talk in Class and Why it Matters:  https://www.educationnext.org/how-to-empower-every-student-to-talk-in-class-why-it-matters/ 

Instructional Routines

High Quality Instructional Routines: https://www.cde.state.co.us/standardsandinstruction/high-quality-instructional-routines#:~:text=Instructional%20routines%20are%20tasks%20enacted,%2C%20Frank%2C%20M.%2C%20%26 

Instructional Routines – Secondary ELA:  https://relay.libguides.com/ela-instructional-routines

Why Instructional Routines Work:  https://medium.com/inspired-ideas-prek-12/why-instructional-routines-work-aac43e6e6664 

Literacy Instructional Routines for Foundational Skills:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gl2peJ982613-rNhjHOsMur3p9xOtlAK/view?usp=sharing 

Mathematical Routines Support Paper from Achieve the Core:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/14NAB0uuiX3-n44hton7XmUw8L5Tdj0LM/view?usp=sharing 

Using the 5 Practices for Orchestrating Mathematical Discussions:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jR3rrjEeTLWixymLi8sVR30P_h31BFNt/view?usp=sharing 

Principles for the Design of Mathematics Curricula_1 - Math Language Routines:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CpFmb7cT6dTqT6sh2MplzWCxXyxiE-w1/view?usp=sharing 

Mastery Based Learning

How Does Mastery Based Learning Work?  https://portal.ct.gov/SDE/Mastery-Based-Learning/How-Does-Mastery-Based-Learning-Work 

Mastery Learning (from the Educational Endowment Foundation) https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-evidence/teaching-learning-toolkit/mastery-learning#:~:text=Mastery%20learning%20approaches%20aim%20to,with%20gaps%20of%20misunderstanding%20widening.

Inspire Science Session – Websites

  1. https://www.ngssphenomena.com  – This website has short videos that can be used for science topics phenomenon.

  1. https://phet.colorado.edu/ - While Inspire has embedded a variety of PhET simulations in the program, this is the site with all of their simulations

  1. https://en.linoit.com/ - Lino is a virtual sticky board that can be used with the Driving Question Board strategy.

  1. https://www.pblworks.org/ - PBL Works is a site authored by the Buck Institute for Education and is all about project based learning.

  1. https://www.activelylearn.com/ - Actively Learn is a collection of Articles, Simulations, Data Sets that can be used to connect science to the world today.  There is a free version that you can use with your classes.