This asynchronous course introduces the principles and practices of explicit instruction—teacher clarity, modeling, guided practice, active engagement—and shows how to design lessons for skills, strategies, vocabulary, and content. Participants analyze classroom examples (video), study the research base, and apply tools to increase opportunities to respond, deliver high-impact feedback, and align practice with the instructional hierarchy across grade levels and content areas. Organized in six modules with flexible pacing.
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
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Define explicit instruction and its key components (teacher clarity, modeling, guided practice, active engagement, feedback).
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Summarize research supporting explicit instruction and high rates of student responding.
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Analyze classroom examples to identify effective and ineffective moves.
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Design explicit lessons for skills, strategies, vocabulary, and content knowledge.
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Plan for frequent, varied student responses and provide action-oriented feedback.
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Align practice tasks to the instructional hierarchy and differentiate supports.