Brophy Teaching

- Jere Brophy
1. A supportive Classroom climate:
- introduce activities with emphasis on what students will learn from them
- encourage students to work collaboratively and help one another
2. Opportunity to learn
- Curriculum oriented, Good planning, good management of classroom
- engage students on task
3. Curricular Alignment
- guide each step for curriculum planning and implementation
- life application ( help student practice what they have learned in and outside
the classroom
4. Establishing learning orientations
- make clear strategies of what to teach
- make sense and purpose of your teaching, help students to focus on main
ideas
5. Coherent content
- shows relationships with other discipline and make sense
- make objectives of what student will learn
6. Thoughtful discourse
- questions are planned, students answer what they know
- to engage student in critical thinking
- Students are to justify their answers
7. Practise and application activities
- students work must be checked properly and give feedback for improvement
- make sure students have enough opportunity for practice by giving them
assignments
8. Scaffolding students' task engagement
- prepare students for activities, provide task requirements
- assess performance, reflection activities done to help students make sense of
what they have learned
9. Strategy Teaching
- clear explanation to the students, make sure they understand
- Teachers models use of strategy, gives instruction, provides comments,
feedback
10.Cooperative learning
- Students are set in groups to help one another
- learn from each other
- Teachers shows students how to focus, listen, share and integrate ideas
11.Goal- oriented assessment
- formal and informal assignment used for achieving goals of the classroom
12.Achievement Expectations
- set goals for class
- expect students to progress
- encourage students by motivating them, be patient
All topics are supporting to one another and a teacher needs one for the
another to do a teaching effectively.