High Leverage Practices

Question 1

Leading a Discussion

Answer 1

Discussion Enabling, Discussion Leading

Question 2

Explaining and Modeling Content

Answer 2

Planning to and Actively Modeling

Question 3

Eliciting and Interpreting

Answer 3

1. Form questions to probe student thinking
2. Pose question
3. Listen and interpret student response
4. Develop additional questions
5. Make sense of what the students know and can do

Question 4

Attending Patterns of Student Thinking

Answer 4

notice common trends in student thinking

Question 5

Implementing Normals and Routines for Discourse

Answer 5

Introduce, Practice, Maintain/Revise

Question 6

Coordinating and Adjusting Instruction

Answer 6

choosing and changing how you teach

Question 7

Establishing and Maintaining Community Expectations

Answer 7

Prepare, Implement, Revise Classroom Rules

Question 8

Implementing Organizational Routines

Answer 8

Prepare, Introduce, Practice, Maintain/Revise

Question 9

Setting Up and Managing Small Group Work

Answer 9

Planning, Teaching/Reinforcing roles, and monitoring/adjusting

Question 10

Building Respectful Relationships

Answer 10

1. Establish rapport
2. Build mutual trust
3. Monitor and maintain relationships

Question 11

Communicating with Families

Answer 11

talking to and supporting the student by their families

Question 12

Learning about Students

Answer 12

gaining knowledge about the students are a person

Question 13

Setting Learning Goals

Answer 13

provide students with goals about learning

Question 14

Designing Single Lesson and Sequences of Lessons

Answer 14

make 1 lesson and then show how each previous or future lesson corresponds with the original

Question 15

Checking Student Understanding

Answer 15

making sure students are learning the topics

Question 16

Selecting and Designing Assessments

Answer 16

choose and create tests/quizzes for your students

Question 17

Interpreting Student Work

Answer 17

Being able to understanding what a student is providing as their work

Question 18

Providing Feedback to Students

Answer 18

1. Interpret Student Work or Thinking
2. Determine Content, Timing, and Mode of Feedback
3. Share feedback with students
4. Support and monitor use of feedback
5. Set a new goal

Question 19

Analyzing Instruction for the Purpose of Improving it

Answer 19

1. Identify a focus
2. Collect artifacts of practice
3. Analyze and interpret artifacts
4. Plan for improvement
5. Implement the plan