High-Impact Instruction: A Framework for Great Teaching

by Jim Knight

Overview

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 building, in which you shape a classroom culture that promotes well-being, creativity, learning, and high expectations

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412981774
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/04/2012
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	7.16(w) x 9.84(h) x 0.96(d)

About the Author

Dr. Jim Knight, Founder and Senior Partner of Instructional Coaching Group (ICG), is also a research associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. He has spent more than two decades studying professional learning and instructional coaching. Jim earned his Ph D in Education from the University of Kansas and has won several university teaching, innovation, and service awards.

The pioneering work Jim and his colleagues have conducted has led to many innovations that are now central to professional development in schools. Jim wrote the first major article about instructional coaching for the Journal of Staff Development, and his book Instructional Coaching (2007) offered the first extended description of instructional coaching. Jim’s book Focus on Teaching (2014) was the first extended description of how video should be used for professional learning. Recently, writing with Ann Hoffman, Michelle Harris, and Sharon Thomas, Jim introduced the idea of instructional playbooks with their book on that topic.

Jim has written several books in addition to those described above, including Unmistakable Impact (2011), High-Impact Instruction (2013), Better Conversations (2015), The Impact Cycle (2018), and The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching (2021). Knight has also authored articles on instructional coaching and professional learning in publications such as Educational Leadership, The Journal of Staff Development, Principal Leadership, The School Administrator, and Kappan. Jim is also a columnist for Educational Leadership and.

Through ICG, Knight conducts coaching workshops, hosts the Facebook Live Program, “Coaching Conversations,” and provides consulting for coaching programs around the world.

Table of Contents

List of Companion Website Resources
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Personal Bests
Part I. Planning
2. Guiding Questions
3. Formative Assessment
4. Learning Maps
Part II. Instruction
5. Thinking Prompts
6. Effective Questions
7. Stories
8. Cooperative Learning
9. Authentic Learning
Part III. Community Building
10. Learner-Friendly Culture
11. Power With, Not Power Over
12. Freedom Within Form
13. Expectations
14. Witness to the Good
15. Fluent Corrections
Conclusion
References and Further Readings
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Seasoned author Jim Knight provides a masterful resource for teachers and other stakeholders to improve student achievement through a host of clearly defined instructional practices. The tools, resources, and examples he provides enable educators to easily implement his framework which comprise the key ingredients for effective instruction. Furthermore, his writing style makes it an engaging read. "

Kathy Glass

"Jim Knight's book, High-Impact Instruction, absolutely delivers on the promise of its subtitle 'A Framework for Great Teaching.' It is breathtaking in its comprehensiveness and heartening in its practicality and detail. This is a must-read for teachers, coaches, administrators, and anyone interested in furthering what is known about effective teaching. "

Robert J. Marzano

It is really important to me that I am kind of getting the full circle view of my classroom and seeing these are things that matter and these are things that could be better, and things that I can do to hopefully make things better by watching my class.“

Beth Sanders

"Jim Knight's High Impact Instruction honors teachers as intelligent, complex, and dedicated people. While many have attempted to identify the attributes of effective instruction, Knight's work singularly acknowledges the basic human need to be our best selves. A wonderful addition to the literature! "

Stephanie Hirsh

"Jim Knight has the capacity to be crystal clear at both the micro and the macro levels—a rare talent. High-Impact Instruction goes deep and it goes comprehensive. Planning, instruction, and community building become interwoven in a powerful manifesto for fundamental instructional and system change—a treasure trove of clear concepts, great ideas for action, and the tools to implement them. "

Michael Fullan

"It is really important to me that I am kind of getting the full circle view of my classroom and seeing these are things that matter and these are things that could be better, and things that I can do to hopefully make things better by watching my class."--Beth Sanders, Teacher

"Jim Knight has the capacity to be crystal clear at both the micro and the macro levels--a rare talent. High-Impact Instruction goes deep and it goes comprehensive. Planning, instruction, and community building become interwoven in a powerful manifesto for fundamental instructional and system change--a treasure trove of clear concepts, great ideas for action, and the tools to implement them."--Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus (11/5/2012 12:00:00 AM)

"Jim Knight′s High Impact Instruction honors teachers as intelligent, complex, and dedicated people. While many have attempted to identify the attributes of effective instruction, Knight′s work singularly acknowledges the basic human need to be our best selves. A wonderful addition to the literature!"--Stephanie Hirsh, Executive Director (11/5/2012 12:00:00 AM)

"Jim Knight′s book, High-Impact Instruction, absolutely delivers on the promise of its subtitle ′A Framework for Great Teaching.′ It is breathtaking in its comprehensiveness and heartening in its practicality and detail. This is a must-read for teachers, coaches, administrators, and anyone interested in furthering what is known about effective teaching."--Robert J. Marzano, CEO (11/5/2012 12:00:00 AM)

"Seasoned author Jim Knight provides a masterful resource for teachers and other stakeholders to improve student achievement through a host of clearly defined instructional practices. The tools, resources, and examples he provides enable educators to easily implement his framework which comprise the key ingredients for effective instruction. Furthermore, his writing style makes it an engaging read."--Kathy Glass, consultant and author of Curriculum Mapping: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Curriculum Year Overviews (9/27/2012 12:00:00 AM)

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