TRT Podcast #161: What should small group instruction look like? – with Deedee Wills Deedee Wills was once a kindergarten teacher who trained other teachers to implement guided reading. In today’s episode she shares information from her recent Plain Talk presentation, explaining why we need to...
Today we’ll look at how to meet the needs of all your students using small group instruction. My first year of teaching first grade, I was required to use a very explicit, scripted phonics program. It was a fail. Full disclosure: At the time I was a balanced literacy teacher and didn...
What Is Small Group Learning? Throughout the school day, you are going to want to engage your students in a variety of different activities and learning settings. Sometimes, you might want to use direct instruction to the whole class to teach a new skill. Other times, you might want studen...
I often set up a backchannel conversation space or a collaborative notes document so learners can share their thinking during the instruction, and have a place to capture their questions and identify which should be addressed in the moment and which might be able to be addressed afterward. This...
I love that one. I think it is broadly applicable to many circumstances – dealing with economic inequalities, differentiating instruction for students with higher-level work, working with those learning English, and those with behavioral challenges. Everybody, despite the challenges that they face an...
After, I introduced three key texts that we are going to use to move our practice forward: John Hattie’s Visible Learning for Teachers; Robert Marzano’s Classroom Instruction That Works; The Sutton Trust’s report What Makes Great Teaching?. After a quick break for tea and sandwiches (...
I don’t give students this instruction without an explanation. I tell them that nearly every doctor in the US will want to cut the creature out. History shows that bot fly larvae are smarter than doctors. If you present yourself to a US doctor with a bot inside you, the predictable res...
One BTSA evaluator observing one set of instruction comes up with a score very similar to any other BTSA evaluator; that’s the way the system is built. What about teaching-centered universities, how do senior faculty do their observations? They show up, if they care to spare the time, ...
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Today we’ll look at how to meet the needs of all your students using small group instruction. My first year of teaching first grade, I was required to use a very explicit, scripted phonics program. It was a fail. Full disclosure: At the time I was a balanced literacy teacher and didn...