Modules

TLAC Online contains 54 modules across 22 techniques, grouped into two categories:

Building Strong Classroom Culture

Engaging Academics

Modules Now Aligned to TLAC 3.0!

Revisions include new videos and more research supporting our techniques, all with the goal of continuing to uplift and empower our students.

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Building Strong Classroom Culture

What To Do

What To Do directions communicate what students SHOULD be doing, not what they SHOULDN'T be doing.

The What to Do Cycle

Almost all other techniques rely on a foundation of clear directions. Start here if you're not sure where to begin.

Planning & Delivering Directions

Set students up for success with directions that tell them clearly and simply what to do.

Radar

Radar is your ability to see what happens in your classroom.

Building Radar

Set the stage for success by giving observable directions and scanning the room.

Be Seen Looking

Communicate to students that you're a careful observer.

Narrate the Positive

Acknowledge those students who are following directions to strengthen the positive norms of the classroom.

Narrate the Positive

Build positive culture by recognizing those students who are upholding classroom norms.

Least Invasive Intervention

The goal of Least Invasive Intervention is to make your redirections nearly invisible so that you can keep teaching and students can keep learning.

Strong Voice

Strong Voice is a technique for adjusting your speech and body language to ensure students listen carefully to what you say.

Establish Formal Register

Ensure your tone, expression and body language convey steadiness and composure to build a strong and positive classroom culture.

Self-Interrupt

Use a strategic pause to make sure every student can hear what is being said.

Economy of Language & Quiet Presence

Speak concisely and quietly to show students that what you are saying is important.

Positive Framing

Give directions and redirections that motivate and inspire students to do their best work.

Frame Redirections Positively

Support students in focusing on their learning by giving directions that show trust and maintain privacy.

Motivate Effort & Excellence

Inspire students to do their best by challenging them and by reminding them about who they are striving to become.

Systems & Routines

Well-planned systems are key to productive and joyful classrooms.

Designing Classroom Systems

Create a vision for the systems in your classroom so academic learning can thrive.

Install Your System, Part 1: Roll-Out

Invest students in your system with a brief, positively-framed introduction that shares the purpose for the system.

Install Your System, Part 2: Deliberate Practice

Design thoughtful practice to make sure your students are prepared to smoothly bring the system to life.

Transfer Ownership: Remove Scaffolding

Empower students to own classroom systems by limiting teacher talk to planned System Cues.

Do It Again

Sometimes the best way to support a student in adjusting behavior is to ask them to simply repeat their action and correct the mistake.

Remote Teaching: Building Culture

These modules help you build a positive, productive culture in a remote setting.

Remote Teaching: What to Do Directions Online

Support student success in a remote classroom by providing clear directions verbally and visually.

Remote Teaching: Narrate the Positive Online

Narrate the Positive to build an active and engaged remote learning community.

Engaging Academics

Ratio

Reflect on student engagement and rigor in your own classroom.

Ratio

Reflect on student engagement and thinking in your own classroom - and strategies to enhance both.

Cold Call

When you Cold Call students, you call on them regardless of whether they have raised their hands or not. Teach and develop the habit of attentiveness with Cold Call.

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Introducing Cold Call

Invest students in Cold Call with a brief, positively-framed introduction to the technique.

Positive Cold Call Culture

Set students up for successful Cold Calls by ensuring that the technique is warm, predictable, and universal.

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Time the Name

Maximize participation by asking your question before Cold Calling a student to answer.

Unbundle & Follow-On

Call on students in a way that increases participation and encourages careful listening.

Slow Call

Slow down your Cold Call to encourage students to think more deeply.

Turn and Talk

Increase student voice through strategic use of peer-to-peer conversations.

Fundamentals of Turn and Talk

Improve the routine of using Turn & Talk effectively in the classroom.

Everybody Writes

Vary the types of prompts to improve student thinking and writing.

Three Types of Writing

Improve student writing by utilizing different types of writing prompts.

Formative Writing

Implement Formative prompts to help students use writing as a thinking tool.

Developmental Writing: Art of the Sentence

Use the discipline of writing a single sentence to help students think and write with greater precision. (Formerly Three Types of Prompts)

Show Call

Show Call is a variation on Cold Call. When you Show Call, you use student work to prompt further learning, analysis, and revision.

Show Call with Purpose

Be strategic about the student work you show and when you show it.

Positive Show Call Culture

Build a culture in which students want to have their work shown.

Analysis & Application

Help students to analyze each other's work and to apply what they've learned.

Ways of Reading

Support students with Fluent, Accountable, Social, and Expressive (FASE) Reading and Accountable Independent Reading (AIR).

FASE Reading - Fluency Expression

FASE Reading is a system for reading aloud together with your students that builds community, increases comprehension, and makes it easier to read more with your students every day.

FASE Reading - Accountability

Ensure that all kids are reading along with you in order to reap the benefits of FASE reading.

Accountable Independent Reading

Support students in reading rigorous texts independently

Knowledge Building Tools

Systems and techniques for supporting knowledge organization and retrieval

Knowledge Organizers

Support students in doing the heavy intellectual lifting in your classroom by providing them with this resource to build their knowledge base.

Retrieval Practice

Help students retain and access the knowledge they are learning by building retrieval practice into your classroom routines.

Explicit Vocabulary

Invest in teaching vocabulary as knowledge rather than as a skill.

Lesson Planning and Preparation

Set yourself and your students up for success by taking these steps before class even starts.

Lesson & Materials

Plan what you and your students will be doing at each point in the lesson.

Lesson Preparation

Determine how you will teach the content outlined within a lesson plan to maximize student learning.

Check for Understanding

Gather data and act on it

Targeted Questioning

Ask a series of focused questions instead of saying, “Does everyone understand?”

Active Observation

Gather strategic data on understanding as students work.

Culture of Error

Develop a classroom culture in which mistakes are celebrated as opportunities for learning.

Normalize Error and Socialize Risk Taking

Respond strategically to student errors to build a class culture of reflection and transparency.

Withhold the Answer & Manage Your Tell

Respond intentionally to student errors to further reinforce the acceptance and appreciation for mistakes in your classroom.

Plan for Error

Plan for Error is the process of anticipating student misunderstandings and determining how you will respond to them in the moment.

Anticipate Student Error

Help yourself notice and respond to student error by planning for it

Break It Down

Respond to incorrect answers in a way that helps students get to "right."

An Exit Ticket is a short, formative assessment that you can use to evaluate your students' success with the lesson objective. Use Exit Tickets to understand students' academic performance and plan how you will respond.