3. Teach Students How to Collaborate Before Expecting Success
4. Use Quickwrites When You Want Quiet Time and Student Reflection
5. Run a Tight Ship When Giving Instructions
before
(1) total silence, (2)
complete attention, and (3) all five eyeballs on you (
To hold everyone accountable for listening the entire time, make it clear that you will never repeat your instructions after you have finished going over them.
6. Use a Fairness Cup to Keep Students Thinking
7. Use Signaling to Allow Everyone to Answer Your Questio
8. Use Minimal-Supervision Tasks to Squeeze Dead Time out of Regular Routines
9. Mix up Your Teaching Styles
10. Create Teamwork Tactics That Emphasize Accountability
the big challenges is just making time for teachers to participate in any type of quality professional development,
It’s another thing if you’re part of a professional development experience that essentially challenges you to rethink your pedagogy, your content, and your assessments, and that expects you to go try some things in your classroom and reflect on how well they went, and then come back and discuss them with a community of other teachers doing similar things.
online teacher professional development that includes an asynchronous component helps with that kind of reflection.