Learn best practices for instruction and creating an effective classroom environment.

1. The Best Instructional Practices
For Student Growth
Bobby Dodd
Principal
Gahanna Lincoln High School

2. Learning Targets for the Session
• I can incorporate the best practices in my
school and classroom on my return.
• I can share and explain to others the best
practices that should exist in each school and
classroom.
• I have the knowledge and know where to go
to expand my knowledge regarding tools to
use for best practices.
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3. We Have to Want to Be Great
• As educators we have to want to be the best
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4. We Have the Resources Available
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5. Follow the 4C’s to Lead
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6. As Educators, We Want to Grow Like
We Want Our Students to Grow
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7. John Hattie
• Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing the
Impact of Learning
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8. Instructional Practices for Growth
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9. Learning Targets
• They need to “Come To Life”
• Clear, with concrete examples
• Don’t just mention the targets once and move
on
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10. Metacognition
• Otherwise known as Student-Led Learning
• Teachers working as facilitators
• Takes time – Takes a lot of Practice – Teachers
have responsibility to help students
• Don’t throw students to the wolves – Plan the
curriculum accordingly
• Creates a more Personalized Learning
environment
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11. Feedback
• Students need to know where they stand
• “Great Job!” “Excellent!” is not feedback
• Students need instant feedback
• Use technology for instant feedback
– Different tools like Plickers, Nearpod, Google
Forms, Padlet, TodayMeet
• Students also need to be able to give feedback
to educators
– Email, Twitter, Padlet, RemindHQ, Slack
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12. Formative Assessments
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13. Formative Assessments
• Practice prepares for the game.
• Technology is good, but use any strategies you
can to help students prepare
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14. Formative Assessments
• Homework & Quizzes
– Practice!
– Establish a culture of Homework & Quizzes as
practice to prepare
– “My students don’t do their homework! How are
they practicing if they don’t do what they are
supposed to do?”
– Go over work in class – explain how it is practice
and provide feedback
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15. Engagement
• Get our students engaged
• Working with technology, working with others
• Allow for student choice and voice
• Create lessons that come to life
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16. Alternative Assessments
• Why do we continue to do things like we
always have?
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17. Alternative Assessments
• Why don’t we let students show us what they
know in different ways?
• “We’re preparing them for the real world.”
• “That’s not how they assess in college.”
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18. Alternative Assessments
• How about we let students:
– Create videos
– Create presentations
– Create projects
• Taking tests every week doesn’t produce
growth, it produces memorizers
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19. Increase the Use of Technology
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20. Increase the Use of Technology
• Let the instruction guide what technology to
use
• SmartBoards and PowerPoints are technology,
but the focus needs to be on how you use
them.
• We need to get rid of the term “Blended
Learning” – it needs to become “Learning”
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21. “Blended” Learning
• Allow students to learn the way they want to
learn.
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22. “Blended” Learning
• 3 areas to make “Blended” Learning just
“Learning:
1. Embed Blended Learning in your Culture
1. Need, Learn, Model, Emulate
2. Develop Learning
1. Don’t Say “No”
2. Use Your Building/Class Time to Grow
3. Personalize Your Building
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23. Personalized Learning
• Limit the amount of lectures/direct instruction
• If you don’t know much about personalizing
instruction, be a learner
– Use the 4 C’s to become stronger
– Read and Research
– See what others are doing
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24. Personalized Learning
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25. Relationships & Environment
• The most growth occurs when healthy student-
teacher relationships exist.
• We tell our staff to focus on the portion of the
OTES rubric on “Classroom Environment”
– Why do so many people not like going to the BMV?
– Compare that to a Dentist Office?
• If there is not a positive environment in your
classroom/building, you do not have a very good
chance of helping students grow.
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30. Email: doddb@gjps.org
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obby-Dodd/100007881709222
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