Below is a list of high leverage practices found to be used by dynamic teachers, as found by the University of Michigan’s School of Education:<\/p>\n
1) Explaining core content<\/strong><\/p>\n 2)\u00a0Posing questions about content<\/strong><\/p>\n 3) Choosing and using representations, examples, and models of content<\/strong><\/p>\n 4)\u00a0Leading whole class discussions of content<\/strong><\/p>\n 5)\u00a0Working with individual students to elicit, probe, and develop their thinking about content<\/strong><\/p>\n 6)\u00a0Setting up and managing small-group work<\/strong><\/p>\n 7)\u00a0Engaging students in rehearsing an organizational or managerial routine<\/strong><\/p>\n 8)\u00a0Establishing norms and routines for classroom discourse and work that are central to the content<\/strong><\/p>\n 9)\u00a0Recognizing and identifying common patterns of student thinking in a content domain<\/strong><\/p>\n 10)\u00a0Composing, selecting, adapting quizzes, tests, and other methods of assessing student learning of a chunk of instruction<\/strong><\/p>\n 11)\u00a0Selecting and using specific methods to assess students’ learning on an ongoing basis within and between lessons<\/strong><\/p>\n 12)\u00a0Identifying and implementing an instructional strategy or intervention in response to common patterns of student thinking<\/strong><\/p>\n 13)\u00a0Choosing, appraising, and modifying tasks, texts, and materials for a specific learning goal<\/strong><\/p>\n 14)\u00a0Enacting a task to support a specific learning goal<\/strong><\/p>\n 15)\u00a0Designing a sequence of lessons on a core topic<\/strong><\/p>\n 16)\u00a0Enacting a sequence of lessons on a core topic<\/strong><\/p>\n 17)\u00a0Conducting a meeting about a student with a parent or guardian<\/strong><\/p>\n 18)\u00a0Writing correct, comprehensible, and professional messages to colleagues, parents, and others<\/strong><\/p>\n 19)\u00a0Analyzing and improving specific elements of one’s own teaching<\/strong><\/p>\n These practices will be applied to all of the activities found in my portfolio, as well as being categorized according to them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Below is a list of high leverage practices found to be used by dynamic teachers, as found by the University of Michigan’s School of Education: 1) Explaining core content 2)\u00a0Posing … Continue reading High Leverage Practices<\/span>