5 Highly Effective Teaching Practices

In a recent blog post for Edutopia, Rebecca Alber wrote about how teaching is not just about the strategies you use, but the purpose and intentionality behind them. She then listed out five highly effective classroom strategies. Check them out below!

1. Teacher Clarity

“When a teacher begins a new unit of study or project with students, she clarifies the purpose and learning goals, and provides explicit criteria on how students can be successful.”

2. Classroom Discussion

“Teachers need to frequently step offstage and facilitate entire class discussion. This allows students to learn from each other.”

3. Feedback

“Along with individual feedback (written or verbal), teachers need to provide whole-group feedback on patterns they see in the collective class’ growth and areas of need.”

4. Formative Assessments

“In order to provide students with effective and accurate feedback, teachers need to assess frequently and routinely where students are in relation to the unit of study’s learning goals or end product.”

5. Metacognitive Strategies

“Students are given opportunities to plan and organize, monitor their own work, direct their own learning, and to self-reflect along the way.”