In a high-performing classroom, the students are doing the mental heavy lifting. Their teacher lectures and explains when necessary, but also finds every possible opportunity to get out of the way and let students speak, think, and write. When a teacher isn't in the spotlight, her job boils down to maximizing the number of students participating and boosting the rigor of the work they're doing.

Match Schoolhouse's Ratio course will teach you three instructional moves you can integrate into any lesson to ensure that all of your students are thinking hard.