Instructional Model

Lesson Segment Involving Routine Events

Lesson Segment Addressing Content

Lesson Segment Enacted on the Spot

 Design Question 1: Communicating Learning Goals and Feedback
1. Providing Rigorous Learning Goals and Scales
2. Tracking Student Progress
3. Celebrating Success

Design Question 2: Helping Students Interact with New Knowledge 
6. Identifying Critical Content
7. Organizing Students to Interact with New Content
8. Previewing New Content
9. Chunking Content into "Digestible Bites"
10. Helping Students Process New Content
11. Helping Students Elaborate on New Content
12. Helping Students Record and Represent Knowledge
13. Helping Students Reflect on Learning

 Design Question 5: Engaging Students
24. Noticing When Students are Not Engaged
25. Using Academic Games
26. Managing Response Rates
27. Using Physical Movement
28. Maintaining a Lively Pace
29. Demonstrating Intensity and Enthusiasm
30. Using Friendly Controversy
31. Providing Opportunities for Students to Talk about Themselves
32. Presenting Unusual or Intriguing Information

 Design Question 6: Establishing Rules and Procedures
4. Establishing Classroom Routines
5. Organizing the Physical Layout of the Classroom

 Design Question 3: Helping Students Practice and Deepen New Knowledge
14. Reviewing Content
15. Organizing Students to Practice and Deepen Knowledge
16. Using Homework
17. Helping Students Examine Similarities and Differences
18. Helping Students Examine Their Reasoning
19. Helping Students Practice Skills, Strategies, and Processes
20. Helping Students Revise Knowledge

 Design Question 7: Recognizing Adherence to Rules and Procedures
33. Demonstrating "Withitness"
34. Applying Consequences for Lack of Adherence to Rules and Procedures
35. Acknowledging Adherence to Rules and Procedures

 

 Design Question 4: Helping Students Generate and Test Hypotheses
21. Organizing Students for Cognitively Complex Tasks
22. Engaging Students in Cognitively Complex Tasks Involving Hypothesis Generation and Testing
23. Providing Resources and Guidance for Cognitively Complex Tasks

 Design Question 8: Establishing and Maintaining Effective Relationships
36. Understanding Students' Interests and Backgrounds
37. Using Verbal and Nonverbal Behaviors that Indicate Affection for Students
38. Displaying Objectivity and Control

 

 

 Design Question 9: Communicating High Expectations for All Students
39. Demonstrating Value and Respect for Low Expectancy Students
40. Asking Questions of Low Expectancy Students
41. Probing Incorrect Answers with Low Expectancy Students