Rigor and Relevance Framework

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Rigor and Relevance Framework

• Lesson Reflection

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Now What?

• Raising the Level of
• Rigor and Relevance

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Ways to raise the level of RR

• Challenging assessments
• Interdisciplinary instruction
• Reading in the content area
• Communicating with parents
• Use of technology
• New teaching ideas
• Peer teaching observations
• Peer learning experience review
• Action research
• Continuous professional development

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Using Instructional Technology

• Technology is neutral it is neither good nor
  bad. How the technology is used determines its
  positive or negative impacts
• To use any application of technology, teachers
  need to be clear about the learning objectives
• New learning opportunities
• Technology can be very helpful because it
  accommodates various learning styles and can
  enhance instructional strategies in many ways

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Improving Instruction

• New teaching ideas
• from the Internet
• Peer review
• teaching observations and peer learning
  experience reflections
• Action research
• collecting data on ones own teaching
  effectiveness
• Personal improvement plans
• to drive professional development

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Peer Reviews

• Peer Teaching Observation
• discussions about teaching prior to delivery of
  instruction
• classroom observations
• discussions about teaching after delivery of
  instruction
• Peer learning Experience Reflection

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Action Research

• Action research is research by people on their
  own work to help them improve their practice
• Teachers doing action research are functioning as
  autonomous, responsible agents who participate
  actively in making their own histories by knowing
  what they are doing
• By continually asking question about their own
  instruction and collecting data, teachers can
  become researchers

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Continuous Professional Development

• Distance learning
• Self-study/Resource centers
• Study groups/teams
• Teacher research
• Partnerships
• Immersion
• Coaching/mentoring

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Reading in the Content Areas

• Sample daily lesson plans
• Before, during and after reading strategies
• Tips on reading specific texts

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Where do we go from here?