High-Leverage Teaching Practices
Professional Development for Battle Creek Public School Teachers!
Core Teaching Practices: Teaching and Leading Through an Equitable Lens
GVSU College of Education & Community Innovation Presenters
Megan Freudigmann and Sheryl Vlietstra
Teaching & Learning Senior Affiliate Faculty
Coming Soon! In November 2022, High-Leverage Teaching Practices Professional Development sessions will be made available to all Battle Creek Public School teachers as TTI (Transformational Teacher Institute) sessions. The TTI sessions will be self-paced, online modules.
High-Leverage Teaching Practices (HLPs) are critical practices that research has demonstrated can impact student achievement and be used across different content areas and grade levels. They form a “common core of professional knowledge and skill that can be taught to aspiring teachers across all types of programs and pathways” (Ball & Forzani, 2011, p. 19). HLPs can provide infrastructure to support effective teaching and consistent learning for every student to succeed.
High-Leverage Practices
- Leading a discussion
- Explaining and modeling content
- Eliciting and interpreting
- Diagnosing patterns of student thinking
- Implementing norms and routines for discourse
- Coordinating and adjusting instruction
- Establishing and maintaining community expectations
- Implementing organizational routines
- Setting up and managing small group work
- Building respectful relationships
- Communicating with families
- Learning about students
- Setting learning goals
- Designing lessons
- Checking student understanding
- Selecting and designing assessments
- Interpreting student work
- Providing feedback to students
- Analyzing instruction
For more information, please contact Megan Freudigmann ([email protected]) or Sheryl Vlietstra ([email protected]).