It is likely you’ve taken part in many professional development activities, all designed to fill your instructional toolkit with a variety of clever “tools and tricks,” promised to make a positive difference in the academic achievement of your students. However, once the lesson planning process gets underway, do you find yourself randomly trying first one strategy and then another; or do you purposefully match specific learning strategies with your instructional goals? In this program, Stuart Greenberg will provide expert commentary as we watch elementary and secondary teachers identify explicit instructional benchmarks, determine what evidence demonstrates student understanding, examine resources they have on hand, discuss and select strategies proven to be most effective in helping students achieve the selected benchmark, and identify content-related difficulties students may encounter.
