Where It All Started

Evidence of Teacher Use of Effective Instructional Practices

January 2012

Instructional Strategy	Percentage of Classroom
Specific learning goals/objectives	11
Corrective Feedback	10
Reinforcement of effort; recognition	33
Well-constructed cooperative learning	2
Cues and prompts	12
Advance Organizers	4
Non-Linguistic representations	7
Kinesthetic activities to increase student acheivement	2
Mental Pictures (by students)	0
Physical models of concepts (manipulatives)	7
Summarizing	3
Note-taking	6
Time for practice, review, application	21
Homework with a clear purpose	0
Comparing, classifying, metaphors/analogies	3
Generate and test hypothes (students)	0
Clearly explain hypotheses and conclusions	0

• Reinforcing and recognizing students’ efforts was the most common strategy.
• Giving students time to practice, review, or apply was the next most common strategy; however, this consisted of giving students seatwork in the form or worksheets or workbooks or other low-level assignments.
• The remaining strategies were either not observed or found in fewer than 10 percent of the classroom visits.