• Fundamental Five

     

  • Overview


    Framing the Lesson

    • Beginning and end of a lesson
    • Powerful instructional resource
    • Part one - Daily learning objective
      • Addresses a single day of instruction
      • Student friendly language
      • In the form of "We will..."
      • Clearly visible
      • Simple and direct
      • Clear focus
    • Part two - Closing question, product or task
      • Demonstrates learning
      • Student friendly language
      • Proof of learning
      • In the form of "I will..."
    • Increases rigor
    • Video


    Work in the Power Zone

    • Teaching or monitoring in close proximity to students
    • On-task behaviors increase
    • Discipline issues decrease
    • Student retention increases
    • Allows teacher to respond to minute changes in student performance and/or behavior
    • Allows teacher to conduct frequent and onging assessment
    • Allows teacher to manage transitions
    • Personal connection/communication with students
    • Video 1
    • Video 2

  • Frequent, Small Group, Purposeful Talk About the Learning

    • After every 10-15 minutes of teacher driven instruction, or
    • After the completion of a major instructional concept
      • Teacher stops talking
      • Groups of 2-4 students discuss a seed question
      • Structured
      • Focused microdiscussion lasting 30 seconds-3 minutes
    • Teacher remains in the Power Zone throughout FSGPT
    • Impacts student retention
    • Video 1
    • Example 1
    • Example 2


    Recognize and Reinforce

    • Academic recognition
      • Giving recognition at all levels of academic success
      • Motivates the pursuit of academic success
    • Social and Behavioral recognition
      • Personalization - recognizing a group or individual student
      • Specifity - recognizing a specific behavior or action
    • Video 1
    • Video 2


    Write Critically

    • Purposeful and intentional writing
    • Writing for the purpose of clarifying, organizing, defending, refuting, analyzing, dissecting, connecting, and/or expanding on ideas or concepts
    • Process not an end prodcut
    • Examples: short list, summary, mind map, purposeful note taking, exit ticket, formal essay, etc/
    • Intent to distill abstract thoughts into concrete understandings
    • Video 1
    • Powerpoints