Trellis Legacy

Trellis’ Core Teaching Practices

Plan for engagement with important STEM ideas

These resources equip STEM teachers to use curricula and standards to establish meaningful goals, anchor instruction based in complex and puzzling natural events, and more, while anticipating a wide variety of student strategies and thinking.

Evidence Checklists for Impactful Engagement in STEM Classrooms

Our Evidence Checklists and Mentor Handbook provide numerous teaching techniques and strategies from unpacking curricula to create learning goals, anticipating student responses, and anchoring instruction in complex and puzzling world events.

year 0

Anticipate a wide variety of student strategies and thinking

year 1-2

Analyze, choose, and modify tasks for specific learning goals

Organize sequence(s) of learning experiences

year 3+

Anchor instruction in complex and puzzling natural events

Unpack curricula and standards to establish meaningful learning goals

Planning and strategies to keep students engaged

Trellis scholars and mentors share what worked for them to enhance student engagement including using culturally responsive practice, peer to peer learning, simulations and labs, and using learning routines. Video transcript