Craft Category: Strategies

Framing words around their functions in a sentence to better support language acquisition along with content mastery

Say Something cards provide students who are learning English with scaffolded sentence stems to help guide conversations.

Students build interactive walls that include grammar tenses, content-based vocabulary, etc., that visualize the meaning and can be used as a tangible support during instruction as well as an additional way to build understanding.

The teacher uses a variety of teaching styles during a “think aloud” to explicitly model for students what they will be doing during their independent practice. This modeling process eventually moves from the teacher modeling to the teacher modeling alongside the student, to the student working independently.

Bilingual binders allow students who are learning English (EL) the ability to monitor and document their progress in a language that both feels comfortable and enables them to engage most fully.

Students build language proficiency within academic conversations through responding to teachers using complete sentences whenever they speak.

TLA, in partnership with EdSurge, conducted a comprehensive review of the scientific literature on adult learning and uncovered six key drivers that make for quality online learning for practitioners.

This video shares evidence from the learning sciences and a practitioner perspective around prior knowledge.

As blended teaching becomes more prevalent throughout the country, leaders in the field are looking for how to measure and assess quality blended teaching skills. As part of her TLA Measurement Fellowship, Emily Pulham distilled the information gleaned from a literature review (Pulham & Graham, 2018) to create an objective, validated test of teacher skill in blended teaching.

Aligning on the “why” of a model is crucial. Dallas ISD utilizes a book study of “The End of Average” to align on the rationale for a personalized model and apply its concepts to education and their instructional model.