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Modeling isn’t one size fits all. How you model d $Modeling isn’t one size fits all. How you model during the “I Do” should depend on what students are actually learning. If students are learning a skill or procedure, like comparing fractions, model the steps AND the thinking behind them. ✨What do I notice? ✨Which strategy should I use? ✨Why? ✨How can I check my thinking? But conceptual learning looks different. If students are learning to describe the causes of the Revolutionary War, you might model how to identify important information, organize it in a graphic organizer, make connections, and use those connections to explain understanding. The graphic organizer isn’t the learning. It’s a scaffold that supports the learning. It all comes back to the learning goal: What will students need to DO or THINK independently? Then make THAT visible. My Direct Instruction Toolkit is coming soon! Comment TOOLKIT and I’ll send you the link to join the priority list. #DirectInstruction #ExplicitInstruction #TeacherTips #ElementaryTeachers #TeachingStrategies$

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Your learning goals shouldn’t come from the activi

Modeling isn’t one size fits all. How you model d $Modeling isn’t one size fits all. How you model during the “I Do” should depend on what students are actually learning. If students are learning a skill or procedure, like comparing fractions, model the steps AND the thinking behind them. ✨What do I notice? ✨Which strategy should I use? ✨Why? ✨How can I check my thinking? But conceptual learning looks different. If students are learning to describe the causes of the Revolutionary War, you might model how to identify important information, organize it in a graphic organizer, make connections, and use those connections to explain understanding. The graphic organizer isn’t the learning. It’s a scaffold that supports the learning. It all comes back to the learning goal: What will students need to DO or THINK independently? Then make THAT visible. My Direct Instruction Toolkit is coming soon! Comment TOOLKIT and I’ll send you the link to join the priority list. #DirectInstruction #ExplicitInstruction #TeacherTips #ElementaryTeachers #TeachingStrategies$

Direct instruction can still be FUN. 👏 And this l

Somewhere along the way, learning goals became a c

This is so fun and easy. Don’t let the task fool y

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