The New Teacher Support Series

Helps teachers organize and manage their classrooms from the first day of the school year; establish effective rules, routines, and procedures; monitor student behaviors; and ensure that the classroom environment is set up to promote teaching and learning. This resource is built around:

• Beginning of the Year Classroom Management
  Promotes research-based practices to establish and maintain well-managed classrooms. The emphasis of this module is on applying proven research-based practices to support effective teaching and learning. 

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• Secondary Classroom Management
  Promotes developing classroom management systems that, at any time of the year, help teachers organize and manage the environment, make student expectations clear, build effective relationships, and foster an environment that promotes student engagement and success.

Promotes the use of classroom practices that have been proven to make a difference in what students learn and how well they learn it. The core teaching behaviors illustrated are designed to: (1) help teachers focus on those instructional practices that maximize student learning; and (2) apply student management strategies that build student participation and maintain student focus. The online module included is:

• Foundations of Effective Teaching
  Highlights research-based practices used by teachers shown to be effective in establishing and maintaining well-managed classrooms and consistently producing gains in student achievement. This module stresses both effective instructional strategies and group management practices.

Focuses on helping teachers collect, analyze, and interpret multiple forms of data and use these to develop class profiles that illustrate instructional groupings that reflect ranges of student learning strengths and needs. The online module included is:

• Instructional Decision Making
  Promotes a systematic process for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting student data to group students for instruction and to make decisions about the implications of their identified learning strengths and needs. This module emphasizes the development of an action plan to identify concrete steps teachers can take to ensure the academic achievement of students in each of the identified instructional groups. 

Helps teachers dig more deeply into student work, data, and ongoing formative assessments to assess and understand the learning strengths and needs of the students and use this information to differentiate lessons for the range of instructional groupings in their class. The included online module is:

• Understanding Student Need
  Promotes an ongoing, systematic process to assess, interpret, and address student learning needs made evident through multiple sources of formal and informal data in a balanced literacy approach. This module emphasizes identifying focus students representative of the learning groups and informing instruction through their learning needs.

Builds on prior work with developing well-managed classrooms and applying effective teaching practices by promoting research-based approaches to effective, outcomes-based instructional planning. The included module is:

• Design for LEARNing
  Offers teachers a research-based model for instructional planning that incorporates strategies to: (1) build on prior knowledge; (2) teach focused, effective lessons; (3) promote active, engaged learning; (4) incorporate reflection; and (5) link to long-term learning. This module emphasizes application of effective planning to improve student learning.

Promotes the application of the nine categories of research-based strategies identified by Robert Marzano and his colleagues as effective ways to strengthen teaching practice and improve student achievement. The included modules are:

• High Yield Overview
  Provides an overview of all nine categories of research-based instructional strategies, the research that underlies their identification, and a look at the instructional strategies in action — in multiple content areas and with students in a range of grade bands. This module emphasizes the connections among classroom management, curriculum design, and instructional strategies.

• Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback
  Supports teachers in understanding how these strategies are interrelated and their importance in helping students set a direction for their learning and assess their progress relative to that goal. This module emphasizes both the teacher’s and students’ use of these strategies to improve student achievement.