STANDARDS
FOR
EFFECTIVE PEDAGOGY
Standard 1: Joint Productive Activity
Teachers and students should work together to produce a product that represents their learning. This allows students to learn through conversation and receive peer and teacher scaffolding. Example: students and teacher work together in a small group to produce a story. Each student has a responsibility and students rely on each other to complete the story.
Standard 2: Language Literacy Development
Teachers should develop opportunities for students to participate in reading, writing, and speaking and should actively question, rephrase, and model learning activities for students. Example: teacher and students define the word "fluency". Teacher models what it sounds like and looks like. Students practice reading fluency passage aloud to a peer and give peer feedback and participate in reflection.
Standard 3: Contextualization
Teachers should connect learning content to students home life and community.
Examples: Curriculum units planned around students interests, students learning about a community explore how they are a member of their community and how their choices affect others around them.
Standard 4: Challenging Activities
Teachers should create challenging activities for students. This is important as it sets students up to think outside the box and develop a deeper meaning for learning.
Examples: Students work together to read a passage. Students find unknown words and agree on context clues to help them determine the meaning of words. Students create their own definition of the words.
CLASSROOM COMMUNITY
Teachers should plan a large amount of time to create a strong classroom community. Building in time for this allows the students and teacher to create values, get to know one another, practice following expectations and reflect on what to do when expectations and values are not followed.
Standard 5: Instructional Conversation
Teachers should plan academic conversations with students. This is important as it allows the teacher to assess students and learn their perspectives on topics and skills. An important factor of this standard is that the teacher allows students to talk and respond to each other the majority of the time with some teacher questioning and rephrasing.
Example: students explore their ideas on the question: what are qualities of a hero? Students agree and disagree and teacher maps student thinking and questions as students discuss.
Standard 6: Critical Stance
Teachers should empower students to take a stance on inequities around them. This is important because it takes student learning and applies it back to their community.
Example: students collect food for a food bank. Students discuss how some families are unable to get to the food bank. Students advocate to develop a way to deliver food to families.
Advocate for Students
Teachers should advocate for students to have access to effective resources and should utilize them with their students.
Imagine Learning Advocacy Project