Anita Archer and Charles Hughes's Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching is a research-based instructional approach that empowers teachers to deliver instruction to diverse groups of learners. This course will explore how to design and deliver scaffolded lessons that are organized for active participation as well as effective and efficient classroom management with mastery learning as the ultimate goal.
This blended course includes a copy of the book. After you register, you will be contacted to confirm your shipping address.
Lesson Design that Promotes Classroom Management explores the foundations of Explicit Instruction, designing organized lessons focused on strategies, skills, and content, as well as pacing of lessons. You will also learn how the organization of the classroom and methods for teaching routines and rules sets the stage for delivering lessons in a way that promotes learning. You will look at how to make your classroom climate both orderly and positive—valuable tools for veteran teachers and coaches mentoring other teachers as well as for the novice teacher.
Day 2 | Active Participation that Improves Classroom Management
Active Participation that Improves Classroom Management focuses on the “art of teaching”. You will discover how to explicitly choose and teach vocabulary, and how to deliver organized lessons focused on student engagement for all students while maintaining a brisk pace. According to Dr. Archer, “If instruction is truly interactive and students are constantly responding, then attention, on-task behavior, and learning increase, and behavioral challenges decrease.”
Day 3 | Explicit Assessment that Supports Classroom Management
Explicit Assessment that Supports Classroom Management - Practice, practice, practice. This is not always the first choice of human beings, and/yet if initial instruction is not yoked to judicious practice (I do, We do, You do), skills will not be retained. In this session, you will discover best practices for implementing well-designed, distributed and cumulative practice. You will also learn how to assess student learning through careful monitoring using corrective and affirmative feedback, while maintaining an orderly and positive classroom.
BOOK | Participants will receive a copy of Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching
ASSIGNMENT | Participants should bring a copy of current or upcoming lesson plans/units along with vocabulary lists that go with the unit.
- SPED | If you're a SPED teacher, contact Kim Watts at Kim.Watts@esc13.txed.net for a discount code.
- BOOK | If you already have a copy of the book, Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching use the discount code BOOK for $30 off the cost of the class/course