Analysis of Instructional Practices
The upside of our curriculum is that it gives educators a lot of autonomy over instructional practices. Instruction needs to be defined from the student’s point of view-those strategies the learner will use to master the content and skills determined in the curriculum (Crowe & Kennedy, 2020, p. 43). Whereas curriculum can be static, instructional strategies are ever-evolving. Even after class last weekend, I learned so many new strategies to add to my toolbox! The TQS (2020) states that teachers should demonstrate acting as a professional body of knowledge by “incorporating a range of instructional strategies” (p. 3). A strategy must be accessible to all learners and engage them in deep thinking. Thus, we know that they are working when students are actively engaged in deep thinking about a learning task as opposed to passively listening and taking notes. In my previous district, we did a lot of professional learning on various in...