Domain 3: Instruction and Communication

Teachers who excel emphasize the importance of learning and the significance of the content. The components in this domain relate to the engagement of students with content such as:
Communicating Clearly and Accurately
Using Questioning and Discussion Techniques
Engaging Students in Learning
Providing Feedback to Students
Demonstrating Flexibility and Responsiveness
Review:
Review the information on effective instructional strategies provided at the following link:
https://www.robeson.k12.nc.us/cms/lib/NC01000307/Centricity/Domain/53/Marzanos%20High%20Yield%20Instructional%20Strategies.pdf
Additional Readings:
Read the attached documents on Instruction.  All of these should be used for response questions and the following assignments for this module.  They are also great resources for techniques to use in the classroom for student engagement.
Attachments
· Blooms_Taxonomy_Action_Verbs.pdf
· Bloom_s_Taxonomy.doc
· Backwards_Design_and_Unpacking_Standards.ppt
· Questioning_Strategies.doc
· Involvement_Strategies.doc
· Cooperative_Learning.doc
· DOK_Chart.pdf
· Student_Engagement.ppt
· Instructional_Strategies.ppt
· Essential_Nine_Instructional_Stategies.docx
Videos and Media
Video One:
Hook/Activator Stations
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/hook-stations?fd=0
Video Two:
Moving around Vocabulary Activity
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/kick-me-making-vocabulary-interactive?fd=0
Video Three:
Learning through Songs
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/say-it-with-a-song?fd=0
Video Four:
Keeping Engagement through Self-Reflection
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/student-engagement-in-language-arts?fd=1
Video Five:
How Your Body Language Draws Them In
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/body-language-engage-motivate?fd=1
Video Six:
Differentiation – MUST!
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/new-teacher-survival-guide-differentiating-instruction?fd=1
Response Questions – COMPLETE
Response Question One: Summarizing and Notetaking
Summarizing and Notetaking: How is that working in your classroom? What is working well, and what could be improved? Do you have advice for others? Is there anything you want others to give you tips on? Attach your response here or upload a word document using your last name as an identifier.
Response Question Two: Language of the Standards
When teachers need to speak the language of the standards, but provide instruction that is accessable to the students, how can that gap be bridged, and what hurdles do you face in doing so? What strategies do you find helpful? Attach your response here or upload a word document using your last name as an identifier.
Response Question Three: Differentiation of Lessons
Differentiation of lessons is essential to accommodate all multiple intelligences within the classroom.  Differentiation to the beginning teacher, however, can be a difficult and daunting skill to master. What techiniques have you found effective in the classroom to meet the requirements of component 3c, while accommodating all learning styles? Attach your response here or upload a word document using your last name as an identifier.
Response Question Four: Marzano’s Instructional Strategies
Discuss the nine instructional strategies that Marzano presents in the attachment above. For each of the nine strategies, explain how you personally incorporate this into your teaching, or plan to incorporate it now. Explain your desired outcomes from utilizing the strategies. Attach your response here or upload a word document using your last name as an identifier.
Assignments – COMPLETE
Assignment One:
Write a two-page reflection using the attachments you read above on Depth of Knowledge levels and Bloom’s Taxonomy that shows how you could frame an entire unit for your subject area creating questioning activities on all levels of the D.O.K. wheel and the sections of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Explain what your students would be actively doing in the classroom to meet the appropriate levels of mastery on each question. Using the D.O.K. levels and Bloom’s Taxonomy along with the tiering and scaffolding you learned about for differentiation is one of the most effective methods teachers can use in the classroom for reaching ALL students at the appropriate levels. Attach your response here or upload a word document using your last name as an identifier.