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The
Five Standards for Effective Pedagogy
Teachers and Students Producing Together
Facilitate learning through joint productive activity among teachers and
students.
Developing Language and Literacy across the Curriculum
Develop competence in the language and literacy of instruction across
the curriculum.
Making Meaning
Contextualize teaching and curriculum in the experiences and skills of
students’ homes and communities.
Teaching Complex Thinking
Challenge students toward cognitive complexity.
Teaching through Conversation
Engage students through dialogue, especially instructional conversation.
The Five Standards articulate both philosophical and pragmatic guidelines for effective education. The standards were distilled from findings by educational researchers working with students at risk of educational failure due to cultural, language, racial, geographic, or economic factors.
The Five Standards do not endorse a specific curriculum but, rather, establish principles for best teaching practices. These practices are effective with both majority and minority students in K-16 classrooms across subject matters, curricula, cultures and language groups.
Self-assessment: The Standards Performance Continuum
A rubric that can be used to measure the extent and effectiveness of enactment
of the Five Standards in the classroom.
Development of Standards
A paper from the director explaining the background and evolution of the
Five Standards
Standards & Indicators
Descriptions of classroom practices that employ the Five Standards.
Evidence of Effectiveness
Research evidence on why the Five Standards work.
- Effective Teaching Document No. 2 (January, 1999)
- Technical Report No. G1 (March, 2002) PDF
Five Standards
for Effective Pedagogy Series (CD-ROM)
Multi-media tools for professional development for K-12 Bilingual/ESL
teachers.
