FAQs
What is the difference between QLIs and QTPs? Quality Learning Interactions are research-driven and designed to leverage structures and strategies to ensure educational spaces are physically and emotionally safe. When implemented throughout the day and when integrated into the lesson design, these can contribute to building stronger classroom communities. These Quality Learning Interactions will enhance our students’ sense of belonging to our schools, classrooms, and buildings. Essentially, QLIs are a way to structure lessons with meaningful interactions that develop warm, demanding, and reciprocal alliances. Quality Teaching Practices, on the other hand, are essential research-based instructional practices that support academic results, learning outcomes, and effective instruction. When intentionally implemented, these Quality Teaching Practices will enhance our students’ engagement, agency, self-efficacy, and achievement. They are a way to intentionally deliver instruction in order to shift power and develop independent learners. Where do I start? Is there a QLI or a QTP I should start with? The QLIs and QTPs are interdependent on each other and do not appear in any specific order, as they are all necessary to improving student outcomes. You can’t focus on mastery if you don’t have clarity of purpose. It is difficult to ignite learners if they do not feel welcome and part of a community. That being said, you have to start somewhere. Our first recommendation is to collect qualitative and quantitative data, and then start with that data. What is happening in classrooms? On your school site? From there, you can determine which QLI(s) and/or QTP(s) would best improve student outcomes at your site immediately. If you are still unsure, begin your study and your work with Welcoming (QLI) or Clarity of Purpose (QTP). The fact is that the other QLIs and QTPs rest on these two as a foundation. You cannot have strong Collaborating, Igniting, Transference, or any other practice, if Welcoming isn’t strong and students don’t feel valued, seen, or as though they matter. The same can be said for Clarity of Purpose. You cannot have effective Focus on Mastery, Active Participation, Check for Understanding, or Reflect and Revise if there is not clarity around what students are learning and why they are learning it. Welcoming and Clarity are great starting points for beginning the work and building a foundation for the other QLIs and QTPs.
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