Five Standards for Effective Teaching

An acclaimed, research-based framework for promoting excellence Based on a proven instructional model distilled over years of research, this book focuses on five essential pedagogy standards for guiding teaching practice in classrooms with diverse students, including English learners. Providing key indicators for each standard along with the theoretical rationale and "best practice" strategies, the book offers teachers invaluable guidance for enhancing language, literacy, thinking, and content learning across the curricula. It also provides advice on creating classroom groupings for differentiating lessons and activities and includes extensive examples of practices from real-life classrooms. Stephanie Stoll Dalton, Ed.D., has taught diverse students from first to twelfth grade, community college, and as a teacher educator. She has consulted widely on teacher quality. She is currently with the U.S. Department of Education

Preface ix The Author xv Part One Understanding the Standards One Effective Teaching and Pedagogy 2 Two Evidence: Scientific Support for Five Standards 22 Part Two Implementing the Standards Three Teacher and Students Producing Together (Standard I) 50 Four Developing Language and Literacy (Standard II) 96 Five Connecting Learning to Students’ Worlds (Standard III) 132 Six Challenging Students’ Thinking (Standard IV) 158 Seven Using Instructional Conversation (Standard V) 188 Eight The Five Standards Integrated: How to Teach Effectively 220 Appendixes 1A Five Standards of Pedagogy with Classroom Indicators 247 3A Timing Instructional Frames 250 3B Guidelines for Organizing Classroom Activity Settings 252 3C Classroom Graphic 254 4A Directed Thinking Activity Cycles 255 4B Web Sites 258 6A Stock Market Math Activity 261 6B Stock Market Instructional Frame 263 6C Footprint Puzzle 264 8A Activity Settings Worksheet 265 8B Scheduling and Routing Form 267 8C Instructional Frame: Student Contract and Choice Model 271 References 273 Name Index 278 Subject Index 281