Although I'm no longer a full - time classroom teacher, I still spend time teaching students in elementary classrooms as I try out
new instructional ideas.
But in districts without such resources, science teachers can use the
ample instructional ideas available on the web to prepare classroom activities and lesson plans about renewable energy and climate change.
I would caution against the wholesale rejection
of instructional ideas that do not perfectly align with the CCSS.
It is a distinction between principals who provided support to teachers by «popping in» and «being visible» as compared with principals who were very intentional about each classroom visit and conversation, with the explicit purpose of engaging with teachers about well -
defined instructional ideas and issues.
We have also made some explicit links between Together for Learning and TALCO's Digital Citizenship Project,
with instructional ideas that may help students and the whole school community to developing a thinking approach to digital citizenship.
During the writing of Stories From Webb: The Ideas, Passions, and Convictions of a Principal and His School Family (Dave Burgess Consulting Inc. 2018), the adults on the campus of John C. Webb Elementary in Navasota, Texas, were asked to share
their instructional ideas, classroom design, and innovative practices.
In addition, the team may distribute their research lesson proposal, which encapsulates the team's research and
their instructional ideas, and can be useful to other educators.