This document outlines emerging good practices for teaching and learning in the new normal setting. It discusses establishing a welcoming learning environment with constant communication. Teachers should focus on building strong relationships with students and explicitly teaching key concepts while screening for students needing extra support. Engaging assignments and assessments are important to address varying degrees of learning loss from disruptions to instruction during the pandemic. The highest priorities for each grade level need to be identified with less instructional time.

1. EMERGING GOOD PRACTICES
IN THE TEACHING
LEARNING PROCESS
IN THE NEW NORMAL SETTING

2. TOPICS FOR TODAY
01
Create a welcoming
environment &
Communicate
constantly
02
Focus on building
strong relationships
with students
03
Explicitly teach students
&
Screen for those who
need additional support
04
Provide engaging
Assignments and
assessments &

3. When teachers go back to school this school
year, the classroom as they’ve known it will be gone,
and their instruction will be more critical than ever.
It’s what the pandemic has delivered. It produced
crisis in schooling, and teachers and schools
scrambled to find resources and master remote
teaching techniques. A more deliberate approach
could mean a better experience for students; the lack
of one could turn equity gaps into chasms.

4. And engaging students is more essential
than ever: Months of unequal access to
instruction last spring mean that students
will be coming back to school, in person or
remotely, with varying degrees of learning
loss. Teachers will have to address those
losses as they introduce grade-level
content.

5. Schools should acknowledge
that they’ll likely have less
instructional time this year
and should plan to identify
the highest priority for each
grade level accordingly.

6. Students are more likely to engage in
learning if they feel welcome and
believe that teachers are truly invested
in their learning and growth. Greeting
each student with a smile and thanking
them for showing up is more vital than
ever, as we know for many students the
school day now includes the very real
physical barriers such as face masks and
plastic dividers in classrooms

7. Focus on building strong relationships with students
To keep students excited about
their learning, teachers need to
invest the time and energy in
really getting to know their
students. This means taking the
time to ask them questions, to
check on how they are feeling,
and to provide sufficient time
for them to respond.

8. Communicate constantly
Reaching out to students is
important – and so is really listening
to their responses, passions, and
ideas. When we speak about
personalizing learning for each and
every student, we need to begin
with listening.

9. Explicitly teach students
Also known as explicit/direct
instruction, this teaching strategy is
highly teacher-led, and focuses on
frequent questioning and guided
practice to help pupils learn a topic
and helps to make learning concepts
clearer.
Explaining the strategy, modeling
the steps in the correct
sequence, and then
allowing students to practice

10. Screen for those who need additional support
Despite educator efforts to engage all
students, we know there are students who
are falling through the cracks. They are
experiencing trauma or may be reluctant to
participate in the learning.
• Identify (isolate)
• Practice (develop) each of these one by
one;
• assess pupils’ use of these skills before
moving on;
• have pupils put them all together for
a final performance
• return to this topic in later weeks and
months to check pupils still retain those
skills.

11. Provide engaging assignments and assessments
Students are able to work on
tasks that are relevant to their
lives. Promoting the use of these
kinds of assessment to identifies
students misconceptions then
this guides and adapts our
instruction during the lesson, to
better meet students needs.

12. Reinforcing Effort/Providing Recognition.
Helping pupils make a link
between putting effort into a
task and receiving
recognition is an important
step in developing a
classroom environment that
fosters active learning.

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