Description
4DL Teacher Suite
Key include:
- Professional Growth: A digital platform providing professional learning, resources, and short-cycle metrics to advance your professional practice.
- Standards-Aligned Task Library: Access a collection of lesson plans designed for student-led team learning.
- Collaborative Educator Community: Join an interactive network of educators implementing the Model of Instruction for Deeper Learning.
- Digital Badges: Recognition for expertise can be gained by completing courses, potentially translating to professional development hours.
- Implementation Progression: A roadmap for planning with clear goals, student evidence, and teacher actions to track goal achievement.
- Downloadable Toolkit: A black and white version of the toolkit shown below is available for download
Model of Instruction Toolkit
Key features include:
- Summarizing Thinking Guides (16): Summarizing Thinking Guides provide structured steps to help teams discuss and synthesize individual ideas into a cohesive summary, ensuring equal participation and a shared understanding of the content.
- Summarizing Mats (8): Summarizing Mats help students develop their own thinking, share their thinking with their team, and create a summary together.
- Role Cards (32): Role cardscreate individual accountability for students to participate with their team and engage in productive conversations.
- Agree/Disagree Cards (30): Agree/disagree cardshelp students listen, take turns, and respond respectfully to each other’s thinking.
- 4-Steps to Help Students Learn the Standard: The 4-Stepssupport shows teachers how to create team tasks aligned to the standard and facilitate equal contributions from all students.
- Forming Student Teams (5): The Forming Student Teams resource helps teachers ensure student teams are well-balanced and best organized for specific tasks.
- What If… Try This…: The What If…Try This…helps teachers troubleshoot common issues within student teams to ensure productivity.
- How To Guides: How To Guides are teacher resources provided to guide and support the implementation of a given tool or structure.
How To Guides provided in this kit:
- Agree/Disagree Cards
- Summarizing Thinking
- Forming Student Teams
- What If… Try This…
