Tammy Heflebower

Just as successful athletes must identify strengths and weaknesses, set goals, and engage in focused practice to meet their goals, so must teachers. Learn how to combine a model of effective instruction with goal setting, focused practice, focused feedback, and observations to improve your instructional practices. Included are 280 strategies related to the 41 elements of effective teaching shown to enhance student achievement.

Coaches and teachers will learn how to improve their craft using research-based strategies proven to heighten their classroom performance and boost student achievement.

Key research and practical strategies enable all teachers to create a classroom environment where engagement is the norm, not the exception.

Written for classroom instructors, Becoming a Reflective Teacher introduces 280 research-based strategies that are expanded on in its companion book Coaching Classroom Instruction, written for leaders and coaches. This two-book set is designed to allow classroom teachers and building- and district-level administrators to work together to gain a united, big-picture view of how to implement strategies for school improvement.

Designed by High Reliability Schools (HRS) experts, this curated package of self-guided professional development resources and Robert J. Marzano’s strategies will help you reach the highest levels of school effectiveness.