Best Practices in Teaching
Blooms Question Stems
CAMA
Classroom Management
Danielson's lesson-plan-template
Direct Teaching
Domain 2_Environment
Domain 3 - Instruction
Domain One: Danielson's Framework
During Reading Strategies
Formative_pocket-assessment
Free Graphic Organizers
Ideas for Wonder Boxes
Indirect Teaching Models
Integrative Model_article
Lesson Plan Worksheet
Managing Student Work and Student Accountability
Planning and Preparation
Post reading strategies
Pre reading strategies
Reggio-Inspired
Sample idea for Interdisciplinary Unit
TEACHER AND STUDENT BEHAVIORS IN DIRECT INSTRUCTION
Templates
UnitPlanTemplate blank
Using Teaching and Assessment Strategies
WebQuest Example PrimaryGrades
Writing unit plans
Year-Lesson-Plan-Template
Zunal
Early Field Early Childhood Education
Overview
This module is designed for pre-service teachers in the undergraduate PreK- 4 Early Childhood Education major. The material in the unit will familiarize the future teacher to develop lesson plans and units in both the direct and indirect teaching models. Wonder Spaces, using the Reggio-inspired philosophy, is introduced to design spaces for learners ages 0 - 5. Classroom management is also included.
Best Practices
This section will lead you to research-based, evidence-based practices. Evidence-based practices have, well, EVIDENCE that demonstrates the effectiveness. As you develop your unit, you will need to list evidence-based practices that support your teaching within the unit. It is a good idea to know where to find these resources. When you have your own classroom, you will need to use evidence-based practices to implement Response to Intervention (RTI) and Multi-tiered System of Support (MTSS) AND your units. Become familiar with where to find the resources.
Review the PPT_Best Practices in Teaching
Lesson Planning
Having well designed lessons will help you accomplish academic and behavioral goals.
The following are available for your review:
PPT_Planning and Preparation
Lesson Plan Template
Danielson's Lesson Plan Template
Domain One: Danielson's Framework
Developing a Unit of Study
Unit plans consist of concepts and learning goals that are taught over a period of time and are woven together, often across subject areas.
Please review the following:
PPT_Writing Unit Plans
Unit Plan Template
CAMA Chart
Direct Teaching Method
The Direct Teaching Method is used to explicitly teach targeted knowledge, skills, or both.
Teacher Models (I DO)
Guided Practice (WE DO)
Independent Practice (YOU DO)
This section has the following for you to review:
PPT_Direct Teaching
Teacher and Student Behaviors in Direct Instruction
Indirect Teaching Method
Discussion_Integrative Model
Read the chapter excerpt, Integrative Model. This should clarify how to develop a lesson plan using the Indirect Method. Apply that knowledge to a unit that you might teach.
Select an organized body of knowledge that you might teach. What different relationships do you see in the content?
What similarities and differences exist?
Can you explain them?
What if conditions were different?
What is the “big idea” you would want students to “take home” regarding this organized body of knowledge? Explain.
Peer responses: What suggestions can you give to your peers to improve his/her thinking? Would this topic be wide enough for a unit of study?
Indirect teaching includes a high level of student involvement in observing, investigating, drawing inferences from data, or forming hypotheses.Indirect Instruction models, the teacher sets up strategies, but does not teach directly; the students make meaning for themselves. Methods include reflective discussion, concept formation, concept attainment, cloze procedure, problem solving, and guided inquiry.
This section includes the following for your review:
PPT_Indirect Teaching Models
Link to Free Graphic Organizers --- Advanced Organizers
5 Es Model Plan
Webquest Example
Integrative Model_chapter exerpt
Zunal --- see sample webquests
Classroom Environment
A teacher has many areas of responsibility for classroom management and discipline. This section includes the following for your review:
PPT_Classroom Management
PPT_Managing Student Work and Student Accountability
Domain 2_Environment: Danielson's Framework
Teaching and Assessment Strategies
Using teaching and assessment strategies will add to your success in the classroom.
This section includes the following for your review:
PPT_Using Teaching and Assessment Strategies
Pre-reading Strateigies
During Reading Strategies
Post-reading Strategies
Templates
Year-long Lesson Template
Formative Pocket Assessments
Domain Three: Danielson's Framework
Wonder Spaces
Wonder Box/Space
In the early years, programs are most effective when the content of learning is focused on supporting the development of strategies, dispositions, and skills for learning through play and inquiry. Through play and inquiry, young children practice ways of learning and interacting with the world around them, which they will apply throughout their lives. Problem solving and critical thinking, communication and collaboration, creativity and imagination, initiative and citizenship are all capacities necessary for success throughout school and beyond. The project will consider what children know, what they wonder about, and their working theories about the world around them.
One way to encourage inquiry or wonder is to enrich the environment of the young learners. Therefore, you will create a Wonder Box/Space for a childcare. The idea is to create a space that will lead to WONDER. For example, a child sees a spider web on the playground and wonders how the spider made the web, wonders how other animals trap or gather their food, wonders if all animals eat bugs, wonders if spiders have babies in webs and what do their babies look like, wonders if spiders eat other things (than bugs), wonders if spiders eat the whole bug or part of it and if they have parts they like best, wonders how many webs a spider can make in a day, wonders how long spiders live, etc.
Notice that no materials were provided for the children to wonder. However, from this inquiry of the children, the teacher can use their wonder/interest to create a learning unit. The unit can include things like books about spiders, models of spiders, web-making tools like a peg board and rubber bands or yarn, candling eggs from other animals, books about babies (eggs, live young, life cycles, etc.), art projects using different mediums to express thoughts about webs and spiders, and this might move into other interest areas like studying babies of different kinds of animals, habitats and habits of animals, life cycles, etc.
Your task will be to create a Wonder Space using recycled materials. The Wonder Box/Space will need to have the following elements:
Instructions for construction of the box/space – Someone should be able to replicate your idea by reading the instructions.
Photo of the space you created.
Materials needed – recyclables of materials found in nature
Theme – for example, Spiders and Webs
Provocation Questions – The idea is to let children wonder and explore --- INDIRECT LEARNING/INQUIRY LEARNING. DO NOT give answers. ASK questions instead to guide the learning. For example, why do you think the web feels sticky? Why do you think the spider lays so many eggs at one time?
Appropriate Age (s) – 0 through 5
What do you hope children will wonder about when they experience this space?
RUBRIC
Instructions for construction of the box/space 10 points
Photo – completed Wonder Space 10 points
Materials needed 5 points
Theme 5 points
Provocation Questions – minimum of 5 10 points
Appropriate Age (s)
Possibilities for further exploration 10 point
Refection of your learning 10 points
Wonder Spaces is focused on the child care setting, ages 0 - 5. Using the Reggio-inspired philosophy of teaching, you will explore ways to create spaces for our littlest learners to explore, discover, and wonder.
This section includes the following for you to review:
PPT_Reggio-inspired
Ideas for Wonder Spaces
Resources
5 E Instructional Model. (2002). CScope. Based on the 5 E Instructional Model presented by Dr. Jim Barufaldi at the Eisenhower Science Collaborative Conference in Austin, TX, July 2002.
A Crash Course in Evidence-based Teaching. Evidence-based Teaching. Retrieved on 5.15.20 from https://www.evidencebasedteaching.org.au/crash-course-evidence-based-teaching/
Free Graphic Organizer Templates. Retrieved on 5.20.20 from https://www.edrawsoft.com/share-graphic-organizer.php
Integrative Model. Pearson. Retrieved on 5.19.20 from https://www.pearsonhighered.com/assets/samplechapter/0/2/0/5/020560997X.pdf
The Mystery of the Missing Tooth. Created by Mrs. H. Murray. GoldenAppleMom.com. Retrieved on 5.20.20 from
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Holly-Murray
Pocket Assessments: A List of Activities for Quick Formative Assessments. Global Digital Citizen Foundation. Retrieved on 5.15.20 from https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/quick-formative-assessment-ideas/amp
Response to Intervention Website.Retrieved on 5.15.20 from https://www.rti.org/
U.S. Department of Education. Retrieved on 5.15.20 from https://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/best-practices.html
What Works Clearinghouse. Retrived on 5.15.20 from https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/