5+Principals+of+High+Quality+Instruction

__**Safe Learning Environment**__
 * Critical to high quality differentiation
 * Be welcoming, celebrating & respecting differences
 * Growth is focus
 * Celebrate successes
 * Fair, equitable
 * Important to have students collaborate
 * Teachers need to show/expose their mistakes and how they learn from them as well

__**High Quality Curriculum**__
 * Includes the big ideas as a foundation while recognizing need to understand specific vocabulary and skills
 * Knowledge, understandings & skills

__**On-going Assessment**__
 * Pre-assessment is essential to guiding instruction
 * It's not when, it's how you do/use the assessment
 * Constantly checking in with students to see how they are doing to adjust accordingly
 * Take into consideration student readiness, interest and learning profiles

__**Respectful Activities**__
 * Engaging and appropriately challenging for the student it is designed for
 * Kids aren't wanting to do different projects because theirs is equally engaging & challenging
 * All activities (maybe different) but should be focused on the same goal.
 * Focus is on assignment is tailored to student and in their zone of proximal development

__**Flexible Grouping**__
 * sometimes work individually, small groups, heterogeneous groups, boys, girls? etc.
 * helps students see themselves from different perspectives
 * Heterogeneous helps build confidence
 * avoid having higher students always be the tutor