The Agile Teacher

Teaching Practice

Select a scenario and teaching practice that would be most useful to you. Our practice sessions are designed to build teacher awareness and research-based teaching practices to perceive student differences and respond to students with student-centered effective feedback.

Our scenarios revolve around students engaged in developing literacy skills including reading comprehension, media analysis, digital literacies, and critical thinking. Our student tasks help us consider the complexity of literacy and how past histories shape our educational practices today.

Simulation Library

Student Reading Strengths Simulation

Discover Student Reading Strengths

Time Estimate: 5 minutes
# of Students: 6
Teaching Practices: Listening, Asking Questions

  • Explore the virtual classroom
  • Learn what avatar students read outside of school
  • Tryout the visualization tools
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Student Centered Feedback Simulations

Develop agility in using a three-part approach to feedback. First, understand the student response by asking clarifying questions and reflecting or sharing back the strengths that you see in student responses. Second, redirect student thinking to recognize errors, take on new strategies, and deepen understanding. Third, prompt students to recognize their learning from redirecting their thinking and how their learning may extend or challenge strengths that they brought to the task.

1. Examine the Question with Oliver and Sharleen

Time Estimate: 3 minutes
# of Students: 2
Focus: Understanding a question

  • Engage students with unclear and/or incomplete responses
  • Support students in identifying the question a prompt is asking
  • Prompt students with actions that can be transferred to similar prompts often found on tests and assignments
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2. Examine Evidence from the Article with Jazmin

Time Estimate: 3 minutes
# of Students: 1
Focus: Prompting careful thinking

  • Engage a student with a
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3. Help Harrison and Luis with Evidence in their Responses

Time Estimate: 3 minutes
# of Students: 2
Focus: Understanding knowledge sources

  • Valuing background knowledge
  • Understanding knowledge sources
  • Identifying knowledge needed
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4. Explore Savannah’s Approach to the Question

Time Estimate: 3 minutes
# of Students: 2
Difficulty Level: Intermediate ••

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Deeper Learning Simulation

Prompting Deeper Learning

Time Estimate: 3 minutes
# of Students: 1 student at a time
Difficulty Level: Advanced •••

  • Use high leverage strategic teaching practices to redirect and extend student thinking.
  • Explore four feedback purposes that promote deeper learning.
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