High-Impact Instruction: A Framework for Great Teaching
Jim Knight
Jim Knight shares effective strategies for maximizing student learning. His framework, rooted in extensive experience with instructional coaches, emphasizes high-impact instruction through content planning, instructional practices, and community building, offering a customizable approach to fit various teaching styles and student needs.
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“This is a book for educators working in schools—teachers, coaches, principals, and their students…This book is my attempt to create a comprehensive and simple collection of tools that help teachers do the work they love to do: reach students. I encourage you, whether you are a teacher, instructional coach, or administrator, to experiment with these practices and to let me know how we can make them better.”
– Jim Knight
Small Changes Equal Big Results
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Planning
Guiding questions
Formative assessment
Learning Maps
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Instruction
Thinking prompts
Effective questions
Stories
Cooperative learning
Authentic Learning
03
Community Building
Learner-friendly culture
Power with, not power over
Freedom within form
Expectations
Witness to the good
Fluent corrections
Empower Educators with this Accessible Road Map for Professional Learning
Expand Your Learning
Explore our other resources to learn more about Instructional Coaching. We offer a variety of workshops, PDFs, informational videos and more.
This workshop focuses on increasing behavioral engagement, including strategies coaches can use to help teachers create positive learning communities in the classroom based on respect and honoring students' autonomy.
This workshop presents strategies to increase achievement that ensure teachers will remain in touch with student progress toward clearly established goals and enabling coaches to help teachers adjust their practices to student needs.
Coaching to Increase Engagement focuses on defining the different types of engagement, how to measure them, and using teaching strategies to hit corresponding goals.
The instructional strategies mentioned in this on-demand course increase engagement and learning. Explore a simple framework – the Big Four, addressing Content Planning, Formative Assessment, Instruction, and Community Building.
These appendices contain standards, rubrics, feedback forms, self-evaluation forms, administrator forms, Impact Cycle checklist, and a candidate evaluation form intended to support the learning in the book and workshop.
Better Learning for Every Student
ICG’s vision has always been to improve the lives of students. To do that, we must support educators. Jim Knight has spent over 2 decades researching instructional coaching which we believe is the best way to support teachers. Education is a challenging profession, and by partnering with an instructional coach, teachers can implement these research-backed teaching strategies to make a positive impact in students’ lives.
Read More About Instructional Coaching
View Jim Knight’s collection of books to learn about his research and how you can implement each of the seven factors for any successful coaching program.
