High-Yield Instructional Strategies Strategy What the Research Says How it looks in the Classroom Tracking Student Progress and Is a combination of two assessment Use of scales, rubrics, and graphs by Scoring Scales strategies that involve the use of a teacher to chart student growth 26% scoring scale or guide to preview achievement gain. Students tracking expected content and the tracking their own growth on a chart, graph, or of student progress toward a scale is associated with a 32% gain in learning goal achievement Setting Goals and Objectives Should create specific but flexible Articulating and displaying learning goals; allow student choice goals, KWL, target boards, steps to writing process or PBL, contracts, display goals in room, discussing goals with students so they are aware Building Vocabulary Using six set process to teaching Teacher explanation vocabulary…40 (avg.) exposures to Student explanation a word for any kind of mastery Student graphic Comparison activities/analogies Student Discussion Use of games Identifying Similarities and Students should compare, classify, Thinking Maps, T-charts, Venn Differences and create metaphors, analogies and diagrams, classifying activities, non-linguistic or graphic analogies, cause and effect links, representations compare and contrast organizers: Comparison Matrix, T-chart, Interactive Games Using academic content in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? situations Jeopardy Wheel of Fortune Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader? Summarizing Process of distilling information Summary frames for comprehension down to its most salient points to aid Ten Most Important Words in understanding, memorizing, and Act it Out learning the relevant material Quick Doodles drawing pictures – Inside-Outside Circles Numbered Heads Together Summary Star Nonlinguistic Representation Students/Teachers create graphic Pictorial graphs of procedures (autism) representations, models, mental Kinesthetic Activity to remember pictures, drawings, pictographs and content (multiply fractions song) kinesthetic activities to assimilate Physical models of atoms knowledge or procedures Imagery for writing Note Taking Process of capturing key Teacher prepared notes with blanks through writing, drawing, or audio (video or lecture) recording- for later access Webs, Inspiration software, Foldables, recording readings by student, Cornell Notes
High-Yield Instructional Strategies Strategy What the Research Says How it looks in the Classroom Tracking Student Progress and Scoring Scales Is a combination of two assessment strategies that involve the use of a scoring scale or guide to preview expected content and the tracking of student progress toward a learning goal Use of scales, rubrics, and graphs by teacher to chart student growth 26% achievement gain. Students tracking their own growth on a chart, graph, or scale is associated with a 32% gain in achievement Setting Goals and Objectives Should create specific but flexible goals; allow student choice Articulating and displaying learning goals, KWL, target boards, steps to writing process or PBL, contracts, display goals in room, discussing goals with students so they are aware Building Vocabulary Using six set process to teaching vocabulary…40 (avg.) exposures to a word for any kind of mastery Teacher explanation Student explanation Student graphic Comparison activities/analogies Student Discussion Use of games Identifying Similarities and Differences Students should compare, classify, and create metaphors, analogies and non-linguistic or graphic representations Thinking Maps, T-charts, Venn diagrams, classifying activities, analogies, cause and effect links, compare and contrast organizers: Comparison Matrix, T-chart, Interactive Games Using academic content in situations Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Jeopardy Wheel of Fortune Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader? Summarizing Process of distilling information down to its most salient points to aid in understanding, memorizing, and learning the relevant material Summary frames for comprehension Ten Most Important Words Act it Out Quick Doodles – drawing pictures Inside-Outside Circles Numbered Heads Together Summary Star Nonlinguistic Representation Students/Teachers create graphic representations, models, mental pictures, drawings, pictographs and kinesthetic activities to assimilate knowledge or procedures Pictorial graphs of procedures (autism) Kinesthetic Activity to remember content (multiply fractions song) Physical models of atoms Imagery for writing Note Taking Process of capturing key writing, drawing, or audio recording- for later access Teacher prepared notes with blanks (video or lecture) Webs, Inspiration software, Foldables, recording readings by student, Cornell Notes through
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