Good teachers

Practice brain-based teaching and learning
Remind students of the 8 Keys of Excellence:
Integrity
Failure Leads to Success
Speak with Purpose
This Is It
Commitment
Ownership
Flexibility
Balance
Use effective classroom management:
Call-backs
Environmental control (music, lighting, classroom arrangements, organics, smells, temperature, sound)
Techniques to set the stage for learning through FADE (Foundation, Atmosphere, Design, Environment)
Five tenets of teaching:
Everything speaks
Everything is on purpose
Experience before label
Acknowledge every effort
If it’s worth learning, it’s worth celebrating
Use opening traditions (greet students out in the hall, use music, etc.)
Understand how the brain works to maximize learning and memory,
Paying attention to three educational channels that are
Visual
Kinesthetic
Audial
3 Big Brain Ideas
We make meaning by connecting to existing schema.
Neurons that fire together wire together.
There is no comprehension without picturing.
Invite students to take responsibility by “living above the line.”
Use the lesson design frame of E-E-L-D-R-C
Enroll
Experience
Learn and Label
Demonstrate
Review
Celebrate
Use mnemonics and power pegs
Encourage students to use the principle of 10-24-7 (Review after 10 minutes, 24 hours, 7 days)
Teach students about visible communication and effective apologies
Teach to different learning styles
Understand Delta – Theta – Alpha – Beta Brainwaves
Attend to the 8 multiple intelligences
Encourage students to use SLANT (Sit up/Lean and look/Ask questions/Nod/Talk to adults)
Teach students about valuing relationships (Big Me Little You) (Big Me Big You)

Lovell High School

Curriculum

Instructional Strategies

Classroom Instruction that Works (2012) by Marzano

The Core Six: Essential Strategies for Achieving Excellence with the Common Core (2012) by Silver, Dewing & Perini

Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12 (2004) Tovani

Fair Isn’t Always Equal: Assessing and Grading in the Differentiated Classroom (2006) by Wormeli

Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning (2011) by Schmoker Good teachers

Quantum Learning

TESA (Teacher Expectation Student Achievement)

Tools for Teaching Content Literacy (2004) by Allen

What Great Teachers Do Differently: 17 Things that Matter Most (2013) by Whitaker

What Works in Schools: Translating Research into Action (2003) by Marzano

The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher (2009) by Wong and Wong