Best Practices for Teaching and Learning

Explore Instructional Strategies that Improve Student Learning

Best Practices for Teaching and Learning integrates the wealth of institutional knowledge with current educational research. This resource offers research-based strategies for helping students learn in all grade levels and content areas.

Three Essential Areas of Best Practices for Teaching and Learning:

Create a Student Centered Learning Environment
Examine how physical set-up and teacher role affects student expectations
Build relationships that promote a safe and positive environment in which students are responsible, self-motivated, and self-evaluating

Plan and Teach for Student Learning

Plan assignments and assessments in alignment with Standards of Learning
Purposefully plan to adjust teaching practices to meet the needs of individual students
Employ teaching strategies, techniques, and resources that meet the needs of all students
Be responsive to the variety of ways students demonstrate thinking and learning

Assess Student Learning

Adapt teaching, based on evidence, to meet the needs of the student
Check student progress in meeting standards and learning goals
Actively involve students in assessment to promote continuous learning; and inform students, parents, and others about student achievement

The Best Practices For Teaching and Learning video collection is on the Fairfax Network YouTube Channel.

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Setting Up Your Classroom

Set up your classroom in a way that promotes student engagement and learning.

Checking for Understanding

What types of questions did you ask students in order to check for understanding?

Be a Part of a Collaborative Team

Educators are committed to working collaboratively in ongoing processes of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve.