Intervention #2: Institutionalizing Effective Instruction. . .

Phase 1. . .

• Provide training to teachers in classroom instruction and classroom management strategies.

• Ask volunteer vanguard teachers to engage in action research and/or survey the teachers regarding the instruction and management strategies.

• Use the findings from the action research and/or survey to identify instruction and management strategies that are to be the “language of” or “model of” instruction in the school or district.

• Rephrase the instruction and management strategies in “question” format to be used for unit design.

Phase 2. . .

• Use the unit design questions as the basis for peer and self-analysis of teaching.

• Use the unit design questions as the basis for administrator “walk throughs.”

• Have teachers meet periodically to discuss their observations and reflections regarding their use of the strategies embedded in the unit design questions.

Phase 3. . .

• Use the unit design questions as the basis for a merit pay system.

• Use the unit design questions as the basis for a “value added” approach to teacher evaluation.

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