Step 10: High Impact Instructional Strategies

21st Century "Survival" Skills (Tony Wagner, 2008)

• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Collaboration and leadership
• Agility and adaptability
• Initiative and entrepreneurialism
• Effective oral and written communication
• Accessing and analyzing information
• Curiosity and imagination

21st Century Skills in the Digital Age (Connie Kamm, 2009)

• Teamwork
• Innovation
• Creativity
• Problem Solving
• Flexibility
• Adaptability
• Commitment to continuous learning

Effective Teaching Strategies (Robert Marzano, Debra Pickering, and Jane Pollock, 2001)

• Identifying similarities and differences
• Summarizing and note-taking
• Reinforcing effort and providing recognition
• Homework and practice
• Nonlinguistic representation
• Cooperative learning
• Setting objectives and providing feedback
• Generating and testing hypotheses
• Cues, questions, and advance organizers

High-Impact Instructional Strategies (Marzano Learning Map)

• Design Question 2: Helping Students Interact with New Knowledge
• 6. Identifying Critical Content
• 7. Organizing Students to Interact with New Content
• 8. Previewing New Content
• 9. Chunking Content into "Digestible Bites"
• 10. Helping Students Process New Content
• 11. Helping Students Elaborate on New Content
• 12. Helping Students Record and Represent Knowledge
• 13. Helping Students Reflect on Learning
• Design Question 3: Helping Students Practice and Deepen New Knowledge
• 14. Reviewing Content
• 15. Organizing Students to Practice and Deepen Knowledge
• 16. Using Homework
• 17. Helping Students Examine Similarities and Differences
• 18. Helping Students Examine Their Reasoning
• 19. Helping Students Practice Skills, Strategies, and Processes
• 20. Helping Students Revise Knowledge
• Design Question 4: Helping Students Generate and Test Hypotheses
• 21. Organizing Students for Cognitively Complex Tasks
• 22. Engaging Students in Cognitively Complex Tasks Involving Hypothesis Generation and Testing
• 23. Providing Resources and Guidance for Cognitively Complex Tasks

What works best in raising student achievement - > .60 Effect Size (John Hattie, 2015)

• Self-Reported Grades
• Response to Intervention
• Classroom Discussion
• Teacher Clarity
• Reciprocal Teaching
• Feedback
• Providing Formative Evaluation
• Acceleration
• Creativity Programs
• Self Questioning
• Concept Mapping
• Problem Solving Teaching

Aspects of Teaching Associated with Student Learning (John Hattie, 2009)

• Paying deliberate attention to learning intentions and success criteria
• Setting challenging tasks
• Providing multiple opportunities for deliberate practice
• Knowing when both the teacher and the student are successful in attaining these goals
• Understanding the critical role of teaching appropriate learning strategies
• Planning and talking about teaching
• Ensuring that the teacher constantly seeks feedback information as to the success of his or her teaching