High-Impact Instruction: a Framework for Great Teaching

Small changes can lead to big results! Best-selling author Jim Knight presents the high-leverage strategies that make the biggest difference in student learning. Featuring checklists, numerous observation tools, and online videos of teachers implementing the practices, 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 b.

HIGH-IMPACT INSTRUCTION-FRONT COVER -- HIGH-IMPACT INSTRUCTION -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF COMPANION WEBSITE RESOURCES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Publisher's Acknowledgments -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- CHAPTER 1: PERSONAL BESTS -- Support for Personal Growth -- The Four Pillars of Impact Schools -- Pillar 1: Seeing Teachers as Professionals -- Pillar 2: Creating a Focus for Professional Learning in an Impact School -- Pillar 3: Instructional Coaches -- Pillar 4: High-Impact Instruction -- Is This Constructivist or Intensive-Explicit Pedagogy? -- Intensive-Explicit Instruction

Constructivist Instruction -- Comparing Approaches -- What You Will Find in This Book -- Part I: Planning -- Part II: Instruction -- Part III: Community Building -- Notes -- PART I: PLANNING -- What Is High-Impact Planning? -- CHAPTER 2: GUIDING QUESTIONS -- Why Teachers Should Create Guiding Questions -- The Limitations of Planning -- A Focus on Units and Questions -- Creating Excellent Guiding Questions -- Putting Guiding Questions Together With Formative Assessments and Learning Maps -- Note -- CHAPTER 3: FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT -- Defining Assessment for Learning -- Why Use Formative Assessment?

1. Identify Gu…