Effective Instruction
Teachers design and deliver lessons every day. But are they the most effective lessons possible, designed to optimize what students know and can do? With limited instructional time, maximizing the effect of instruction is critical. Using more than 30 years of research, participants learn how to incorporate highly effective, research-based strategies into their daily instruction.
High Yield Strategies: The Essential Foundation (Year 1)
The Essential Foundation program of study is designed to prepare instructional leaders to help teachers identify, understand, and apply the high yield strategies to their ongoing teaching. This program of study for instructional leaders and K–12 teachers integrates research-based professional learning with a suite of online and text learning resources to help participants realize the identified outcomes.
Strategies covered include:
- Homework and Practice
- Identifying Similarities and Differences
- Generating and Testing Hypotheses
- Cooperative Learning
- Providing Feedback
- Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition
- Nonlinguistic Representation
High Yield Strategies: Acquiring and Integrating Knowledge (Year 2)
These instructional strategies are designed to support instructional leaders and teachers in the learning, teaching, and effective integration of high yield strategies. Instructional leaders and teachers will create and refine plans for teaching, observation, and support as each new strategy is learned.
High Yield Strategies: Applying and Connecting to Practice (Year 3)
Year 3 focuses on deepening instructional leaders' application of the strategies in the classroom.
New Teacher Development: Developing and Supporting Beginning Teachers
Helps instructional leaders support new teachers as they develop the critical skills necessary to become highly effective educators.