High-Impact Instruction: A Framework for Great Teaching

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High Impact Instruction is a response to the pressing need among school leaders for research-validated, high-leverage instructional practices that have a significant, positive impact on the way teachers teach and students learn. Author Jim Knight provides a simple but powerful framework and set of tools for improving classroom management, content planning, instruction, and assessment. In addition, the book addresses the most effective forms of professional learning that can be used to ensure that teachers learn the Big Four teaching practices: Instructional Coaching, Partnership Learning, and Intensive Learning Teams. 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). 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