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High-Impact Instruction

A Framework for Great Teaching
Focus on the high-leverage strategies in four areas—content planning, formative assessment, instruction, and community building—that make the biggest difference in student achievement!

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781412981774
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2012
  • Page Count: 392
  • Publication date: December 04, 2012

Price: $43.95

Description

Description

Small changes can lead to big results!

The key to improving student achievement isn't more teacher time—it's more teacher impact. But how do you decide which instructional practices will deliver the most bang for your buck? In this handbook, written for teachers but suitable for use by principals and instructional coaches, best-selling author Jim Knight presents the high-leverage strategies that make the biggest difference in student learning.

This is no one-size-fits-all to-do list for the classroom—it's a simple and flexible framework you can customize to fit your working style and students' needs. Grounded in more than a decade of work with instructional coaches, this revolutionary book focuses on the three areas of high-impact instruction:

  • Content planning, including using guiding questions, learning maps, and formative assessment
  • Instructional practices such as the use of thinking prompts, effective questions, challenging assignments, and experiential learning
  • Community building, in which you shape a classroom culture that promotes well-being, creativity, learning, and high expectations

This accessible road map for professional learning empowers and supports you in making changes to your practice with practical tools, including:

  • Checklists, numerous observation tools, and recommended resources for further reading
  • Online videos that focus on implementation of high-leverage instructional practices
  • Ways that students, teachers, instructional coaches, and principals can support implementation of the practices
  • Suggestions for using the book and videos in coaching and school improvement efforts

When it comes to teaching, little changes can make a big difference. With High-Impact Instruction, you have a rich toolkit for improving your own practice and promoting great teaching every day in every class.

"This book absolutely delivers on the promise of its subtitle, 'A Framework for Great Teaching.' It is breathtaking in its comprehensiveness and heartening in its practicality and detail."
—Robert J. Marzano, CEO
Marzano Research Laboratory

"Jim Knight has the capacity to be crystal clear at both the micro and the macro levels—a rare talent. High-Impact Instruction goes deep and it goes comprehensive. Planning, instruction, and community building become interwoven in a powerful manifesto for fundamental instructional and system change."
—Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus
OISE/University of Toronto

"Jim Knight's High-Impact Instruction honors teachers as intelligent, complex, and dedicated people. While many have attempted to identify the attributes of effective instruction, Knight's work singularly acknowledges the basic human need to be our best selves."
—Stephanie Hirsh, Executive Director
Learning Forward

Join Jim Knight and other experts at the 2014 Instructional Coaching Conference to explore how whole school reform is enhanced when principals, teachers, and coaches use collaborative planning and effective Instructional Coaching techniques to improve student learning: www.corwin.com/tlc


Key features

(1) Provides a comprehensive, powerful, easy to understand framework for leading school improvement efforts.

(2) Provides a clear, easy-to-follow roadmap for professional learning to ensure that high leverage teaching practices are implemented in schools.

(3) Informed by a substantial research base

Author(s)

Author(s)

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Jim Knight

Jim Knight has spent more than two decades studying professional learning, effective teaching, and instructional coaching. He is a Research Associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning and the President of the Instructional Coaching Group.

Jim wrote the first article on the topic of instructional coaching for The Journal of Staff Development, and his book Instructional Coaching: A Partnership Approach to Improving Instruction (Corwin, 2007) popularized the idea. Jim edited Coaching: Approaches and Perspectives (Corwin, 2009) and co-authored Coaching Classroom Management (Pacific Northwest Publishing, 2010). Jim’s other books include Unmistakable Impact: A Partnership Approach to Dramatically Improving Instruction (Corwin, 2011), High-Impact Instruction: A Framework or Great Teaching (Corwin, 2013), and Focus on Teaching: Using Video for High-Impact Instruction (Corwin, 2014).

Jim’s articles on professional learning, teaching, and instructional coaching have appeared in journals such as The Journal of Staff Development, Principal Leadership, The School Administrator, Kappan, and Educational Leadership.

Frequently asked to lead professional learning, Jim has presented to more than 30,000 educators from six continents. He has a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Kansas and has won several university teaching, innovation, and service awards. Jim also writes the Radical Learners blog.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of Companion Website Resources


Preface


Acknowledgments


About the Author


1. Personal Bests

Part I. Planning


2. Guiding Questions

3. Formative Assessment

4. Learning Maps

Part II. Instruction


5. Thinking Prompts

6. Effective Questions

7. Stories

8. Cooperative Learning

9. Authentic Learning

Part III. Community Building


10. Learner-Friendly Culture

11. Power With, Not Power Over

12. Freedom Within Form

13. Expectations

14. Witness to the Good

15. Fluent Corrections

Conclusion


References and Further Readings


Index


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