STAR FRAMEWORK:
Essential Components of Powerful Teaching and Learning
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Skills and/or Knowledge are manifested as the teacher provides opportunities for students to develop rigorous conceptual understanding, not just recall.
Thinking is evident as the teacher provides opportunities for students to respond to open-ended questions, to explain their thinking processes, and to reflect to create personal meaning.
Application of skills, knowledge, and thinking is evident as the teacher provides opportunities for students to make meaningful personal connections and to extend their learning within and beyond the classroom.
Relationships are positive as the teacher creates optimal conditions for learning, maintains high expectations, and provides social support and differentiation of instruction based on student needs.
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Combining the Indicators and their Strategies with the Essential Components creates the STAR Framework.
SKILLS
1. Teacher provides an opportunity for students to develop and/or demonstrate skills
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2. Students' skills are used to demonstrate conceptual understanding
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3. Students demonstrate appropriate methods and/or use appropriate tools to acquire/represent information
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KNOWLEDGE
4. Teacher assures the focus of the lesson is clear to all students and that activities/tasks are aligned with the lesson objective/purpose
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5. Students construct knowledge and/or manipulate information to build on prior learning, to discover new meaning, and/or to develop conceptual understanding, not just recall
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6. Students engage in significant communication, which could include speaking/writing, that builds and/or demonstrates conceptual knowledge and understanding
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THINKING
7. Teacher uses a variety of questioning strategies to encourage students' development of critical thinking, problem solving, and/or communication skills
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8. Students develop and/or demonstrate effective thinking processes either verbally or in writing
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9. Students demonstrate verbally or in writing that they are intentionally reflecting on their own learning
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APPLICATION
10. Teacher relates lesson content to other subject areas, personal experiences and/or contexts
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11. Students demonstrate a meaningful personal connection by extending learning activities in the classroom
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12. Students produce a product and/or performance for an audience beyond the classroom
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RELATIONSHIPS
13. Teacher assures the classroom is a positive, inspirational, safe, and challenging academic environmen
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14. Students work collaboratively to share knowledge, complete projects, and/or critique their w
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15. Students experience instructional approaches that are adapted to meet the needs of diverse learners (differentiated learning)
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*Above text taken from BERC Group Website - November 28, 2015