CREDE

CREDE's Five Effective Teaching Standards

Center for Research on Education, Diversity, & Excellence (CREDE)
http://www.crede.ucsc.edu/
University of California, Santa Cruz 1156 High Street • Santa Cruz CA 95064
(831) 459-3500 • (831) 459-3502 fax
CREDE is a university-based national educational research and development centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement (http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/ResCtr.html) to address nationally significant problems and issues in education related to cultural and linguistic diversity and second language learning.

To learn about more CREDE, please click: http://www.crede.ucsc.edu/about/about.html

To learn more about CREDE's five effective teaching standards, click
http://www.crede.ucsc.edu/tools/research/standards/standards.html

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1. To learn more about "Joint Productive Activities" click http://www.crede.ucsc.edu/tools/teaching/standards/1jpa.shtml
You are encouraged to address the following question: How have you experienced (or not experienced) the effect of learning through "Joint Productive Activities" in your own learning or teaching over the years?"
2. To learn more about "Language Development Across Curriculum" click http://www.crede.ucsc.edu/tools/teaching/standards/2ld.shtml
You are encouraged to address the following question: How have you experienced (or not experienced) the effect of learning by having opportunities to clarify specific terminology used in law, textbooks, field practices, etc. as well as by some special use of language across different professional domains?
3. To learn more about "Contextualization" or tie school learning to learners' real life context click http://www.crede.ucsc.edu/tools/teaching/standards/3cont.shtml
You are encouraged to address the following question:
How have you experienced (or not experienced) the effect of learning by having opportunities to tie what you are learning to the real world applications?

4. To Learn more about "Challenging Activities" or Promoting learners' higher order thinking skills (HOTS) click http://www.crede.ucsc.edu/tools/teaching/standards/4chal_act.shtml
You are encouraged to address the following question:
How have you experienced (or not experienced) the effect of learning by having opportunities to apply and enhance higher order thinking skills (HOTS)?

5. To learn more about "Instructional Conversations" click http://www.crede.ucsc.edu/tools/teaching/standards/5inst_con.shtml.
You are encouraged to address the following question:
How have you experienced (or not experienced) the effect of learning by having opportunities to engage in instructional conversations among peers and between you and the instructor?

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