Memphis City Schools Teaching and Learning

Framework 7 C's (TRIPOD)

1. Know your students in order to Care

effectively plan your instruction. Captivate

2. Set through-course and end-of- Challenge

course goals. Confer

3. Create or adapt standards-based

instructional plans and assessments Clarify

guided by pacing and content from Challenge

instructional maps.

Captivate

1. Engage students in objective- Clarify

driven lessons. Confer

Consolidate

Clarify

2. Expain content clearly and Confer

accurately. Challenge

Captivate

3. Engage students at all learning Challenge

levels in appropriately challenging Captivate

work. Consolidate

4. Provide students multiple ways to Clarify

engage with content. Confer

Consolidate

5. Use strategies that develop higher- Challenge

level thinking skills. Confer

6. Check for understanding and Clarify

respond appropriately during the Consolidate

lesson.

7. Maximize instructional time. Control

Captivate

Control

1. Build a respectful, learning- Confer

focused classroom community. Care

Captivate

2. Develop classroom procedures and Control

routines. Confer

3. Use classroom space and resources Consolidate

to support instruction. Captivate

Control

4. Manage student behavior. Confer

Captivate

1. Monitor progress relative to Confer

through-course and end-of-course Consolidate

goals

2. Use student data to inform and Clarify

modify instructional practice. Consolidate

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