Flexible Grouping strategies assist teachers in engaging students with deep thinking tasks as well as enhance student’s willingness to work cooperatively and productively with others.
Increasing the Depth of Knowledge of learning tasks will stretch students to deeper levels of understanding of content as well as increase their ability to justify and reason their thinking.
And, Quality Questioning strategies foster students’ abilities to communicate their understanding of content through structured and/or scaffolded questions. By formulating questions, learners connect new information to old and thereby experience learning as understanding.
These are not all inclusive of strong Tier 1 intentional instructional practices that would be seen in a classroom, however, when teachers implement intentional instructional strategies with fidelity there will be significant impact on student achievement and engagement.
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Resources for the intentional instructional strategies can be found by clicking on the 4 squares above. Look for the AAYM Initiative (Fall 2013 - Spring 2016) link.