Elmore: Only Three Ways to Increase Student Learning:
Elmore: Only Three Ways to Increase Student Learning 2 Increasing teachers' knowledge and skill enacted in the classroom. Raising the level of the content. Changing the student's role in the instructional process.
Cultivating peer-led learning:
Share best practices Learn from colleagues Cultivating peer-led learning
Guiding Questions:
Instructional Strategies What instructional strategies convey to students that we value not only the product of their efforts but also the process that produced it? What instructional strategies encourage curiosity ? Guiding Questions
Guiding Questions:
Performance Tasks How can we best encourage students to take educational risks ? What types of assignments foster critical thinking and creativity ? Guiding Questions
Guiding Questions:
Feedback to Students When is student self-reflection/assessment most meaningful? When is peer evaluation useful? How might these processes be used to increase student ownership of work and metacognition? How can we help students to receive and use feedback in a way that encourages development? Guiding Questions
An example: Authentic Voice Group:
A high school group of faculty from a variety of disciplines Biweekly lunch meetings to discuss how to help students develop an authentic voice in their work An example: Authentic Voice Group