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From Jim Burke for 8/9/10 - #engchat

 

 

The Ten Elements of Effective Instruction

1.     Provide the necessary conditions for optimum learning and engagement.

2.     Establish and communicate clear, specific learning objectives aligned with state, postsecondary, and career standards.

3.       Make explicit connections between present and past lessons, students’ lives, other texts or subjects, the real world, and the Big Ideas around which lessons are organized.

4.     Prepare students by teaching relevant background knowledge, skills, and academic language and literacies.

5.     Integrate assessment throughout the instructional process, using the data to establish initial understanding, measure progress, provide feedback, refine instruction, and prepare students for future performances.

6.     Teach students strategies for learning, remembering, and doing.

7.     Demystify literacy practices and assignments by modeling, providing examples, and giving clear directions as students graduate from dependence on you to responsibility for their own learning.

8.     Use different types of methods, modes, and media.

9.     Ask students to generate a range of ideas, interpretations, solutions, questions, and connections.

10.    Provide meaningful opportunities to practice, perfect, and perform all lessons in class and at home.

 

Note: These ten elements are at the core of the next edition of The English Teacher's Companion, which is what I have been working on the last year; it will come out in about 2013. 

 

 

Welcome to #engchat wiki

 

Thank you for all those who have participated in our weekly #engchat on Mondays at 7 PM.  It has been a pleasure to connect with so many amazing educators from around the world and we hope that you continue to join every week.  Please share #engchat with your fellow teachers in your school and district so that we can continue to grow our community of teachers as learners.  

 

If you have any feedback on how to improve any aspect of #engchat, feel free to connect with us on twitter.

 

Meenoo - @sapereaude

Cindy - @@CBethM 

Stephanie -@engteachgeek

 

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