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