Best-Practice Instruction in Birdville ISD

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The REAL best practices!

1. Set a reasonable time to leave school each day & stick to it!2. Get serious about germ prevention!3. On Sunday, plan all of your after-school activities for the week &

write them into your plan book/calendar.4. Stock an emergency drawer in your desk: deodorant, dental floss,

hair spray, comb, flip flops, thank you notes, gum, snacks and a sweater/jacket.

5. Prep an emergency sub plan now so you are ready for the unexpected illness…it will happen.

6. Don’t compare your ‘beginning’ to someone else’s ‘middle’. 7. Do at least one thing with your class each week that reminds you

of why you became a teacher in the first place!

Objectives

Connect Best Practices to BISD’s Learning Platform

Identify and analyze some of Marzano’s 9 best-practice strategies

BISD Learning Platform

STUDENT-CENTERED

INTERACTIVE

COGNITIVE

Standards

Robert Marzano and John Hattie have both done extensive work in determining what effect certain teaching strategies and structures have on learning.

Best-practice strategies and structures

Best Practices

Average Percentile

Point Gains on Student

Achievement Tests

Cooperative Learning

Research:• Organizing

students into cooperative groups yields a positive effect on overall learning if approach is systematic and consistent.

Cooperative Learning

Ways to Group:Let’s use one:

HeterogeneousHomogeneousMixed ability

Identifying Similarities and Differences

Research:The ability to break a concept into its similar and dissimilar characteristics allows students to understand and solve complex problems by analyzing them in a more simple way.

Identifying Similarities and Differences

-Comparing • similarities

and differences

-Classifying • grouping

things that are alike

-Metaphors• comparing

two unlike things

-Analogies• identifying

relationships between pairs of

Non-Linguistic Representations

Research:• Engaging students

in the creation of nonlinguistic representations actually stimulates and increases activity in the brain

Non Linguistic Representations

Recommendations:

Generating mental images Drawing pictures or pictographs

Constructing graphic organizers Acting out content

Making physical models

Making revisions to physical models, mental images, pictures, graphic

organizers

Non-Linguistic Representations

Let’s Do It:This Needs a Caption

• Great opportunity to see if students are applying what they know to the pictures they are given.

• A caption is – a title or brief explanation to an illustration, cartoon, or poster.

Without this important caption, the reader

can’t tell what business services, health care, hotel/leisure, natural resources, and retail have in common.

This needs a caption: post your campus to Padlet

Let’s Do It: ThinkquirySemantic Feature Analysis

Topic: Traits of a Successful Teacher1. Discuss and list the top 8 things you need to know for the first

day of school2. Now list your group member names across the top3. Now code your list using the following:

+ = I’m very confident- = I have no clue? = I think I know, but need to ask

Need to Know Nam

e

CSI: Color, Symbol, Image

1. Choose a big idea or important theme that you strongly associate with teaching.

2. Choose a color that you think best represents the essence of that idea.

3. Create a symbol that you think best represents the essence of that idea.

4. Sketch an image that you think best captures the essence of that idea.

Best Practices…Where Do They Fit?

Average Percentile

Point Gains on Student

Achievement Tests