Science Teachers Learning from Lesson Analysis (STeLLA®)


How STeLLA Works


STeLLA--What teachers learn: Effective Teaching Strategies. How teachers learn: Video-based Lesson Analysis.

STeLLA brings together two powerful approaches to teacher professional learning. 

What teachers learn in STeLLA is a set of high-leverage teaching strategies, identified through research on the instructional practices of highly effective science teachers. These strategies include engaging student thinking and organizing instruction in a way that connects science ideas.

How teachers learn in STeLLA is through video-based lesson analysis, in which they study videos of teachers attempting to implement the STeLLA teaching strategies. 

The combination—learning to use high-leverage STeLLA teaching strategies through video-based lesson analysis—transforms the way teachers motivate students to learn science. 

STeLLA is designed as a three-phase process that is facilitated by expert mentors in-person, online, or in a hybrid format over the course of one school year (approximately 90 hours).

Phase 1

STeLLA Strategies

Teachers learn STeLLA strategies, focused on student thinking and coherent instruction.

Video-based Lesson Analysis

Teachers analyze videos of other educators using the STeLLA strategies along with their lesson plans and work from their students.

Phase 2

STeLLA Strategies

Teachers use lesson plans designed to encourage the use of STeLLA strategies.

Video-based Lesson Analysis

Teachers analyze videos and student work from their own classrooms and reflect on how they can improve.

Phase 3

STeLLA Strategies

Teachers collaboratively plan their own lessons incorporating STeLLA strategies.

Video-based Lesson Analysis

Teachers analyze videos and student work from their own classrooms and reflect on how they can improve.