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Effective Teaching Strategies

For new AND veteran teachers, a course that provides an essential tool-kit for the educator hoping to optimize his or her practice.

Topics will include:

• Using backward design to plan standards-based units

• Creating ongoing formative assessments to inform curriculum and instruction

• Chunking a lesson

• Using activators and summarizers to maximize student learning

• Promoting higher-level thinking

• Differentiating instruction for all learners

• Creating a positive classroom climate

• Collaborating with colleagues

• Forming partnerships with students’ families and communities