High-Impact Instruction
A Framework for Great Teaching
- Jim Knight - University of Kansas, USA
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January 2013 | 392 pages | Corwin
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.
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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
Supplements
good strategies for the classroom with good descriptions of each
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