High-Impact Instruction

A Framework for Great Teaching
Jim Knight - University of Kansas, USA
High-Impact Instruction
December 2012 | 392 pages | Corwin
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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.

Contents

List of Companion Website Resources

List of Companion Website Resources

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

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

Conclusion

References and Further Readings

References and Further Readings

Index

Index

Resources

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.

Contents

List of Companion Website Resources

List of Companion Website Resources

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

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

Conclusion

References and Further Readings

References and Further Readings

Index

Index

Resources

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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.


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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good strategies for the classroom with good descriptions of each
Dr Michael Shackleford, Educational Leadership, Union University
"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. A wonderful addition to the literature!"
Stephanie Hirsh, Executive Director, Learning Forward
"Jim Knight's book, High-Impact Instruction, 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. This is a must-read for teachers, coaches, administrators, and anyone interested in furthering what is known about effective teaching."
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—a treasure trove of clear concepts, great ideas for action, and the tools to implement them."
Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus, OISE/University of Toronto
"Seasoned author Jim Knight provides a masterful resource for teachers and other stakeholders to improve student achievement through a host of clearly defined instructional practices. The tools, resources, and examples he provides enable educators to easily implement his framework which comprise the key ingredients for effective instruction. Furthermore, his writing style makes it an engaging read."
Kathy Glass, consultant and author of Curriculum Mapping: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Curriculum Year Overviews, and Mapping Comprehensive Units to the ELA Common Core

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