Five Standards for Effective Teaching

An acclaimed, research-based framework for promoting excellence

Based on a proven instructional model distilled over years of research, this book focuses on five essential pedagogy standards for guiding teaching practice in classrooms with diverse students, including English learners. Providing key indicators for each standard along with the theoretical rationale and "best practice" strategies, the book offers teachers invaluable guidance for enhancing language, literacy, thinking, and content learning across the curricula. It also provides advice on creating classroom groupings for differentiating lessons and activities and includes extensive examples of practices from real-life classrooms.

Stephanie Stoll Dalton, Ed.D., has taught diverse students from first to twelfth grade, community college, and as a teacher educator. She has consulted widely on teacher quality. She is currently with the U.S. Department of Education

Preface ix

The Author xv

Part One Understanding the Standards

One Effective Teaching and Pedagogy 2

Two Evidence: Scientific Support for Five Standards 22

Part Two Implementing the Standards

Three Teacher and Students Producing Together (Standard I) 50

Four Developing Language and Literacy (Standard II) 96

Five Connecting Learning to Students’ Worlds (Standard III) 132

Six Challenging Students’ Thinking (Standard IV) 158

Seven Using Instructional Conversation (Standard V) 188

Eight The Five Standards Integrated: How to Teach Effectively 220

Appendixes

1A Five Standards of Pedagogy with Classroom Indicators 247

3A Timing Instructional Frames 250

3B Guidelines for Organizing Classroom Activity Settings 252

3C Classroom Graphic 254

4A Directed Thinking Activity Cycles 255

4B Web Sites 258

6A Stock Market Math Activity 261

6B Stock Market Instructional Frame 263

6C Footprint Puzzle 264

8A Activity Settings Worksheet 265

8B Scheduling and Routing Form 267

8C Instructional Frame: Student Contract and Choice Model 271

References 273

Name Index 278

Subject Index 281

THE AUTHOR

STEPHANIE STOLL DALTON, Ed.D., has taught diverse students from first to twelfth grade, community college, and as a teacher educator. She has consulted widely on teacher quality. She is currently with the U.S. Department of Education.

AN IDEAL MODEL FOR DIFFERENTIATING TEACHING FOR INCLUSIVE INSTRUCTION IN ANY CLASSROOM.

Five Standards for Effective Teaching offers teachers of grades K–8 a system to support effective teaching, especially teaching through dialogue. Focusing on five essential pedagogy standards, the book describes teachers' implementations, 'best practice' strategies, and scores of classroom activities. From research conducted by the Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence (CREDE), the five standards emphasize fundamentals underlaying effective teaching that lead to learning. They are:

• Teacher and students producing together
• Developing language and literacy
• Connecting learning to students' worlds
• Teaching complex thinking for academic competence
• Teaching every student through Instructional Conversation

PRAISE FOR FIVE STANDARDS FOR EFFECTIVE TEACHING

"A must-have book for all bilingual, classroom, and ELL teachers, teacher educators, and professional developers! It is concise, complete, and filled with clearly stated, easily understood, excellent ideas and examples that I wish I had when I began my career as a classroom teacher of ELL and diverse students." —VIRGINIA HAASE, bilingual and classroom ELL teacher, Elementary School District #62, Plainfield School, Des Plaines, Illinois

"Five Standards for Effective Teaching is packed with the essentials of excellent teaching, from how to arrange the physical environment, group students for maximum learning, manage multiple small groups, create a community of learners, lead dialogue that results in new understandings, and more, all in five standards for effective teaching. These research-based standards cross grade level, subject area, and student population and are illustrated with vivid, real-life examples." —ELLEN MCINTYRE, associate professor, Department of Teaching and Learning, College of Education, University of Louisville, Kentucky