Best Practice Teaching

1.) Best Practice Teaching can be described as "good teaching," or teaching that is student-centered and takes a progressive approach to teaching and education. Best Practice Teaching includes seven stuctures. These structures are reading-as-thinking, representing-to-learn, small-group activities, classroom workshop, authentic experiences, reflective assessment, and integrative units. Best Practice Teaching includes using a less traditional approach to teaching, instead moving more towards a progressive classroom.

2.) Once again, Best Practice Teaching incorporates seven structures: reading-as-thinking, representing-to-learn, small-group activities, classroom workshop, authentic experiences, reflective assessment, and integrative units. Further more, Best Practice Teaching encourages using methods such as hands-on learning, choice for students(allowing them to pick their own topics, books, etc), emphasis on higher order thinking, delivery of special help to students in regular classrooms, etc.

3.) Best Practice Teaching is not whole-class lecture, rewarding silence in the classroom, "seatwork," rote memorization of facts, tracking and ability grouping, promoting a competitive classroom atmosphere, reliance on standardized tests, etc.

4.) Best Practice Teaching could be incorporated into the English classroom in a variety of ways. For example, providing a text set and letting students pick their own books or topics, providing students with the opportunity to work with a variety of genres, including a multi-genre project into the curriculum, allowing students to present their work in a variety of ways including writing, graphics, orally, etc.