Does the teacher provide instruction in or opportunities to practice vocabulary?
Treatment
Control
● Vocabulary instruction was observed in all fve classrooms to varying degrees of depth. ● Two teachers explicitly previewed text vocabulary prior to reading the text. ● One teacher leveraged an organic opportunity to defne an unknown word for a student.
● No explicit vocabulary instruction was observed in the comparison classrooms. ● One teacher answered students’ questions about the defnitions of terms in the text.
Does the teacher ever reference Lexile levels, the ability to adjust the reading difculty, or anything along those lines? Treatment Control
● Neither of the two teachers referenced reading levels during the observation.
● None of the fve RISE educators mentioned reading levels during their lessons.
When students are working independently and in pairs/small groups, what is the teacher doing?
Treatment
Control
● During independent practice, RISE teachers in all fve classrooms leveraged the proximity of their small group tables to monitor student progress and work. ● Positive narration of good student habits was present in each room we observed.
● One teacher sat at the kidney table to efectively monitor the students. ● One teacher remained standing for a bird’s eye view of student work. ● Positive narration of good student habits was present in both rooms.
Instruction and Culture Scales The questions related to Quality of Instruction and Classroom Culture were analyzed to provide an understanding of how classrooms overall represented each aspect of the construct. Each step in the scale was given a numerical value and observations were totaled across scale items. Totals were divided by the number of observations to compare the two groups (which had an unequal number of observations).
LXD Research -RISE and RISE UP Winter 2022-Spring 2023 Report
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