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The
Five Standards for Effective Pedagogy
Visit our Multimedia Pages to see video clips of the Five Standards in action.
For research and data related to the Five Standards, click here.
• Teachers and Students Working Together
Use instructional group activities in which students and teacher work
together to create a product or idea.
• Developing Language and Literacy Skills
across all Curriculum
Apply literacy strategies and develop language competence in all subject
areas.
• Connecting Lessons to Students' Lives
Contextualize teaching and curriculum in students' existing experiences
in home, community, and school.
• Engaging Students with Challenging
Lessons
Maintain challenging standards for student performance; design activities
to advance understanding to more complex levels.
• Emphasizing Dialogue over Lectures
Instruct through teacher-student dialogue, especially academic, goal-directed,
small-group conversations (known as instructional conversations), rather
than lecture.
The Five Standards articulate both philosophical and pragmatic guidelines for effective education. The standards were distilled from findings by educational researchers working with students at risk of educational failure due to cultural, language, racial, geographic, or economic factors.
The Five Standards do not endorse a specific curriculum but, rather, establish principles for best teaching practices. These practices are effective with both majority and minority students in K-16 classrooms across subject matters, curricula, cultures and language groups.
Five Standards Tools
- Self-assessment: The Standards Performance Continuum
(SPC)
A rubric that can be used to measure the extent and effectiveness of enactment of the Five Standards in the classroom.- Visit the pages of CREDE researcher Vanessa Lee, which present a detailed look at the SPC and offer a number of useful tools for measuring enactment of the standards.
- NEW!
Self-assessment for
students
A one-page chart co-developed with educators from Greenland that enables students to rate the Standards Performance Continuum. - Standards & Indicators
Descriptions of classroom practices that employ the Five Standards. - Five Standards for
Effective Pedagogy Series (CD-ROM)
Multi-media tools for professional development for K-12 Bilingual/ESL teachers.
Background on the Five Standards
- Development of Standards
A paper from the director explaining the background and evolution of the Five Standards
Evidence of Effectiveness
Visit this link for research
evidence on why the Five Standards work.
