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Effective Instruction: Grouping for Instruction
Guidelines for using various grouping formats, including whole group, teacher-led small groups, partners, and cooperative groups. Includes suggestions for managing groups and a reflection activity for teachers.
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Observation Tool: Features of Effective Instruction
Observation tool for examining effective instructional features in content-area classrooms or interventions.
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Effective Instruction, Reflection Activity: Grouping Formats
Activity for teachers to reflect on and plan their use of different grouping formats for instructional purposes.
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Resource Series for Teaching Adolescents with Reading Difficulties
The Texas Education Agency's Texas Gateway provides professional development material, Building Blocks for Teaching Adolescents with Reading Difficulties, developed as a part of the Texas Adolescent Reading Academies, or TALA.
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Web page with a booklet that presents recommendations for improving student learning: space learning over time, use both worked examples and problem-solving exercises, combine graphics with oral descriptions, connect abstract and concrete representations, and use quizzes.
Get Resource Anita Archer’s Explicit Instruction Website
Companion website to Explicit Instruction (Archer & Hughes, 2011). Provides videos of effective instruction at the elementary and secondary levels in reading, language arts, and math classes.
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Provides videos showing teachers using effective instructional strategies across English/language arts, fine arts, math, science, and social studies classrooms (PK-12)
Get Resource Rosenshine (2012) article, “Principles of Effective Instruction: Research-Based Strategies that All Teachers Should Know”
Article describing 10 principles of research-based features of effective instruction that all teachers should be implementing.
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