the fundamental 5

FRAMING THE LESSON

• BEGINNING AND END OF A LESSON
• POWERFUL INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCE
• PART ONE - DAILY LEARNING OBJECTIVE

  • ADDRESSES A SINGLE DAY OF INSTRUCTION

  • STUDENT-FRIENDLY LANGUAGE

  • IN THE FORM OF "WE WILL..."

  • CLEARLY VISIBLE

  • SIMPLE AND DIRECT

  • CLEAR FOCUS

• PART TWO - CLOSING QUESTION, PRODUCT OR TASK

  • DEMONSTRATES LEARNING

  • STUDENT FRIENDLY LANGUAGE

  • PROOF OF LEARNING

  • IN THE FORM OF "I WILL..."

• INCREASES RIGOR

Work in the Power Zone

• Teaching or monitoring in close proximity to students
• On-task behaviors increase
• Discipline issues decrease
• Student retention increases
• Allows teacher to respond to minute changes in
student performance and/or behavior
• Allows teacher to conduct frequent and ongoing
assessment
• Allows teacher to managing transitions
• Personal connection/communication with students

Write Critically 

  • Purposeful and intentional writing

  • Writing for the purpose of clarifying, organizing, defending, refuting, analyzing, dissecting, connecting, and/or expanding on ideas or concepts

  • Process not an end product

  • Examples: shortlist, summary, mind map, purposeful note-taking, exit ticket, formal essay, etc/

  • Intent to distill abstract thoughts into concrete understandings

Frequent, Small Group, Purposeful Talk About the Learning

• After every 10-15 minutes of teacher driven
instruction, or
• After the completion of a major instructional concept

  • Teacher stops talking

  • Groups of 2-4 students discuss a seed question

  • Structured

  • Focused microdiscussion lasting 30 seconds-minutes

• Teacher remains in the Power Zone throughout
FSGPT
• Impacts student retention

Recognize and Reinforce

• Academic recognition

  • Giving recognition at all levels of academic success

  • Motivates the pursuit of academic success

• Social and Behavioral recognition

  • Personalization - recognizing a group or individual student

  • Specificity - recognizing a specific behavior or action