Dive into the complexities and payoffs of implementing solid frameworks for teaching in a way that actually helps both teachers and students improve. Instructional frameworks provide excellent professional guidance to accelerate growth in schools. Using personal anecdotes and data-backed tools, readers will find exceptional resources for school leaders in developing not just "best practice" for instruction but also good professional judgment.
School leaders and administrators will:
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- Focus on defining instructional frameworks
- Engage with the idea of specificity and the importance of making clear expectations
- Look at the challenges and importance of exacting the scope and level of detail for your instructional framework
- See how instructional frameworks, once implemented, function as a path for teacher growth and school improvement
- Examine organization-wide school improvement initiatives that can be improved by instructional frameworks and expand past the rhetorical and into the active
Contents:
Introduction
Part 1: What Are Instructional Frameworks?
Chapter 1: Defining and Developing Instructional Frameworks
Chapter 2: Making Shared Expectations More Specific
Chapter 3: Instructional Frameworks in Action--Case Studies
Part 2: How to Develop Instructional Frameworks
Chapter 4: Choose a Focus
Chapter 5: Bounding Your Improvement Focus
Chapter 6: Identifying Key Components
Chapter 7: Articulating Levels of Fluency
Chapter 8: Getting Started and Getting Input
Part 3: Instructional Frameworks in Action
Chapter 9: Using Instructional Frameworks for Teacher Growth
Chapter 10: Broader Applications for Instructional Frameworks
Chapter 11: Supporting Organization-Level Initiatives With Instructional Frameworks
Conclusion: Coming Full Circle