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The CKH EXCEL Teaching Model provides a framework for using best practices to build and support student-directed classrooms. 
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capturing kids' hearts | EXCEL teaching model

The CKH EXCEL Teaching Model provides a framework for using best practices to build and support student-directed classrooms.

Engage

X-plore

Communicate

Empower

Launch

Engage Greetings and Good Things

  • Students are greeted at the door with a handshake, eye contact, and a welcome.
  • Start class with Good Things.
  • Establishes a human connection and sets the foundation for a positive relationship.

X-plore Identify the needs of the group

  • Teachers listen and attend to the personal, emotional, and academic needs of our students.
  • The Social Contract helps focus discussions around student/class needs.
  • Use questioning to determine any needs.

Communicate Meet the needs you can

  • Teachers communicate care as well as content.
  • Teacher Clarity: learning targets, relevance, and success criteria

Empower Students "use and do" what they've learned

  • Teachers empower students to take ownership of their learning/behavior.
  • Refer to Social Contract; use checks, fouls, affirmations; involve greeters/raters.
  • Student self-assessment
  • Four Behavior Questions

Launch "End and send" our students into the world

  • Teachers end classroom experiences on a powerful note.
  • Feedback, reflections, affirmations
  • Clear, meaningful closure

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