Best Practices for Teaching and Learning

This segment looks at the value of collaborative curriculum and grade level teams. It explores how they operate and how to encourage collaboration.

In this segment, an elementary teacher walks us through how she sets up her classroom after returning from summer break. She discusses the considerations for the physical space, which will be most conducive to differentiated learning centers for her students.

This segment discusses the value of checking for understanding in the K-12 classroom and explores methods used to check for understanding.

This segment helps to define engagement, looks at the difference between compliance and engagement, and discusses methods for engaging students in content and tasks.

This segment examines the instructional benefits of the document-based questioning technique and how it encourages critical thinking skills.