Modules
Texas TLAC Online contains 36 modules across 15 techniques, grouped into two categories:
Building Strong Classroom Culture
Engaging Academics
Modules Now Aligned to TLAC 3.0!
Revisions include new videos and more research supporting our techniques, all with the goal of continuing to uplift and empower our students.
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Building Strong Classroom Culture
What To Do
What To Do directions communicate what students SHOULD be doing, not what they SHOULDN'T be doing. Learn more about this technique with the training that follows.
Radar
Radar is your ability to see what happens in your classroom. Check out the trainings below to learn more about Radar.
Least Invasive Intervention
The goal of Least Invasive Intervention is to make your redirections nearly invisible so that you can keep teaching and students can keep learning. Explore the trainings below to learn about several different kinds of Least Invasive Interventions.
Strong Voice
Strong Voice is a technique for adjusting your speech and body language to ensure students listen carefully to what you say. Learn more about Strong Voice in the trainings that follow.
Positive Framing
Give directions and redirections that motivate and inspire students to do their best work.
Systems & Routines
Well-planned systems are key to productive and joyful classrooms.
Designing Classroom Systems
Create a vision for the systems in your classroom so academic learning can thrive.
Remote Teaching: Building Culture
These modules help you build a positive, productive culture in a remote setting.
Engaging Academics
Cold Call
When you Cold Call students, you call on them regardless of whether they have raised their hands or not. Explore the trainings below to learn more about Cold Call.
Introducing Cold Call
Invest students in Cold Call with a brief, positively-framed introduction to the technique
Time The Name
Maximize participation by asking your question before Cold Calling a student to answer
Show Call
Show Call is a variation on Cold Call. When you Show Call, you use student work to prompt further learning, analysis, and revision. Explore the trainings below to learn more about this technique.
Double Plan
Double Planning is the process of planning what both you and your students will do at each point in the lesson. Engage with the training below to learn more.
Plan for Error
Plan for Error is the process of anticipating student misunderstandings and determining how you will respond to them in the moment. Check out the trainings below to learn more about this technique.
Art of the Sentence
When you use Art of the Sentence, you ask students to synthesize a conclusion, describe an insight, or summarize a complex idea in a single, well-crafted sentence. Check out the following training to learn how to apply this technique in your classroom.
Exit Tickets
An Exit Ticket is a short, formative assessment that you can use to evaluate your students' success with the lesson objective. Check out the trainings below to learn how to design Exit Tickets effectively and how to analyze and act on the data you collect.
Stretch It
When you Stretch It, you respond to students' correct answers with more challenging questions. Check out the training that follows to learn more about this technique.
Remote Teaching: Engaging Academics
These modules help you create engaging and inclusive classrooms, building breadth of participation and depth of thought.