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Indicators:

• Flexibility and Student focus
• Support for autonomy and leadership
• Student expression
• Restriction of movement

Effective feedback helps children obtain a deeper understanding of concepts and provides motivation for children to stay ingaged in, and get the most from, lessons and activities.

Indicators: Scaffolding, feedback loops, prompting thought processes, providing information, encouragement and affirmation.

 

Instructional learning formats measures ways in which teachers maximize children's interest, engagement, and ability to learn from lessons and activities.  In classrooms with effective instructional learning formats, teachers provide instruction using many modalities, such as visual, oral, and movement, look for opportunities to actively engage children, and facilitate learning during group lessons, centers, and on-one-one time. 

More than 20 years of scientific, evidence based reading research makes clear that all good readers must master certain basic skills. Those skills include the ability to decode words accurately. 21 page toolset

The best way to show children that print is useful is to incorporate it into their every day activities.  When its used this way, dictation is a meaningful, not isolated experience.  

This chart is used prior to a field trip to a pumpkin farm.  It encourages children to follow the scientific procedure of forming a hypothesis, collecting data, and checking their hypothesis.