Jim Knight: High Impact Professional Learning
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Last Date to Register: 11/22/2016 12:01 AM
Last Date to Cancel: 10/30/2016 12:01 AM
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When it comes to improving instruction, teachers, instructional coaches, and administrators have literally hundreds of options. But which teaching practices are the few that show the greatest potential to improve student learning? Researchers at the Instructional Coaching Group have been exploring this question for the past decade.
The result, described in Jim Knight’s High-Impact Instruction: A Framework for Great Teaching focuses on the instructional areas of content planning, formative assessment, engaging instruction, and community building.
This institute provides an overview of the high-yield teaching strategies built into the framework for great teaching described in High-Impact Instruction, also known as the Big Four. Specifically, participants will learn about:
• Content Planning, involving guiding questions and learning maps
• Formative Assessment, involving specific proficiencies, checks for understanding,
• Engaging Instruction, involving thinking prompts, effective questions, cooperative
• Community Building, involving learner---friendly culture, power with rather than power over, freedom and modifications to teaching learning, stories, and authentic learning within form, expectations, being a witness to the good, and correcting fluently
Participants will receive free resources they can use to support the use of Big Four in their school or district, including observation forms, coaching checklists, and online video clips of teachers discussing and using the practices.
Participants will also learn how principals can lead school reform efforts in a way that leads to understanding, agreement, and commitment, and how instructional coaches can provide essential support to teachers who choose to implement the strategies.
About Jim Knight:
Jim Knight has spent more than two decades studying professional learning, effective teaching, and instructional coaching. He is a Research Associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning and the President of the Instructional Coaching Group.
Jim wrote the first article on the topic of instructional coaching for The Journal of Staff Development, and his book Instructional Coaching: A Partnership Approach to Improving Instruction (Corwin, 2007) popularized the idea. Jim edited Coaching: Approaches and Perspectives (Corwin, 2009) and co-authored Coaching Classroom Management (Pacific Northwest Publishing, 2010). Jim’s other books include Unmistakable Impact: A Partnership Approach to Dramatically Improving Instruction (Corwin, 2011), High-Impact Instruction: A Framework or Great Teaching (Corwin, 2013), and Focus on Teaching: Using Video for High-Impact Instruction (Corwin, 2014).
Jim’s articles on professional learning, teaching, and instructional coaching have appeared in journals such as The Journal of Staff Development, Principal Leadership, The School Administrator, Kappan, and Educational Leadership.
Frequently asked to lead professional learning, Jim has presented to more than 30,000 educators from six continents. He has a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Kansas and has won several university teaching, innovation, and service awards. Jim also writes the Radical Learners blog.
Price: $175
-Includes copy of High Impact Instruction
Who should attend? K-12 Teachers, Instructional Coaches, Administrators, Title I Teachers, Special Ed Staff
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