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Like the term personalized learning, innovative instruction is used widely in education circles and can mean different things to different educators. This section will provide some research-based insight into innovative schools and practices. You will use this research to identify one area of innovative practice for your own study. You will identify useful resources to help you better understand your topic by collecting and curating resources for your professional learning. This will serve as a collection of resources, strategies, and lessons which can be used as a focus for your remaining work in the framework.
Identifying Innovation
Identifying Innovation
Research by the Christensen Institute identified patterns of instructional innovation as part their Canopy Project. As an evidence-based starting point, this research can help educators in their design for learning.
Making Sense of School Innovation: Five Categories of Practice Revealed
Making Sense of School Innovation: Five Categories of Practice Revealed
This introductory summary of research by the Christensen Institute offers an introduction to the Canopy Project and initial findings to inform instructional practice.
Activity Directions
Activity Directions
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
Explore patterns of innovation in high functioning schools and programs
Identify connections with learner variability, culturally responsive teaching, and social and emotional learning
Read the article Making Sense of School Innovation.
Discuss these questions with your learning partner.
How do the five categories correlate with your perception of student learning in your school or context?
In what ways do these categories support learner variability? Culturally Responsive Teaching?
Identify one of the categories which you'd like to research in more detail for the next activity.
Curating Resources and Strategies
Curating Resources and Strategies
For this activity, you will engage in some professional research and exploration of the categories of instructional innovation listed above. You are welcome to conduct your research using whatever tools or resources you prefer. As a starting point, some curated collections of resources have been identified from Edutopia.
Other topics can be explored or searched here.
Activity Directions
Activity Directions
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
Identify an area of innovative instructional practice for further examination
Research and curate resources for a category of innovative instructional practice
Connect this instructional practice to learner variability, CRT, and other considerations
Activities
Activities
Identify at least 3 articles on the topic you've selected and
Bookmark the useful links using your LIFT Bookmarks Form or a curation tool of your choice.
Read these articles considering the following prompts
How does this instructional strategy or approach support student-centered learning?
What evidence, research, or anecdotes support this strategy or approach?
What connections do you see with other topics you've explored so far in this framework?
Respond to the following prompts in your LIFT Portfolio
In what ways could this instructional practice or strategy (ex. inquiry-based learning) support the following:
Learner variability
Culturally Responsive Teaching
Social and Emotional Learning
Equity and Antiracist Instruction
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