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The resources below have shown to be powerfully effective in providing high impact instruction, yielding continuous student achievement.
IF YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO LEARN, NO ONE CAN HELP YOU. IF YOU ARE DETERMINED TO LEARN, NO ONE CAN STOP YOU.
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CONTENT PLANNING
"High impact planning helps teachers create an intentional classroom by guiding teachers to think deeply about each learning opportunity. When teachers create guiding questions, they identify what is most important for their students to learn. When they create learning maps, teachers consider the sequence of their instruction and the connections between the knowledge, skills, and big ideas their students will be learning." - Jim Knight, High Impact Instruction
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CONTENT PLANNING
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
"Formative assessment, then, is a collection of strategies teachers employ to get clarity on what they will be teaching and to assess how well students have learned what they are teaching. The understanding teachers gain from formative assessment then serves as the foundation for teachers to make adjustments to the way they teach so students will learn what is being taught." - Jim Knight, High Impact Instruction
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FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
INSTRUCTION
INSTRUCTION
Effective delivery of instruction is imperative to student learning and student achievement. The five areas below represent methods shown to improve teacher instruction.
THINKING PROMPTS
"Thinking prompts promote dialogue, help students make connections, provide background knowledge, and engage students."
Jim Knight, High Impact Instruction
STORIES
"Stories can be used by teachers to link abstract learning to concrete knowledge, to connect new learning to prior knowledge, to create positive learning communities, and to increase students' interest."
Jim Knight, The Kansas Coaching Project
EFFECTIVE QUESTIONS
"Discussion questions can be used as catalysts for student thinking, classroom conversation, and dialogue."
Jim Knight, The Kansas Coaching Project
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GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATIONS
AUTHENTIC LEARNING
"Authentic learning must be grounded in aspects of the real world and provide a sense of purpose for students to ponder and make sense of. When authentic learning is implemented well, it is the essence of rigor and relevance."
Jim Knight, The Kansas Coaching Project
COOPERATIVE LEARNING
"In many cases, because cooperative learning is by definition an interactive learning process, it can be more engaging than even outstanding lectures..."
Jim Knight, The Kansas Coaching Project
COMMUNITY BUILDING
"Teachers can get better with creating and managing expectations by creating an awareness of all classroom activities and transitions and thinking carefully about associated expectations of behavior, as well as writing down and teaching expectations for every situation. Teachers should teach students how to act, talk, and move during all activities and transitions, and understand that students may be more committed to the expectations if they are involved in the creation of them." - Jim Knight, High Impact Instruction
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RESOURCES
COMMUNITY BUILDING
Tech Tips for Teaching
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