Instructional Strategies for High Student Achievement | Successline Inc.
Program Description
This workshop is based on research-based strategies that help students learn and remember information - and then use that information as the basis for thinking more critically and creatively. Research-based interactive teaching and learning strategies positively impact student achievement. Topics and strategies include vocabulary development, alignment of strategies to different cognitive levels, non-linguistic representations, questions, compare and contrast, concept attainment, and more.
Virginia Standard(s) Addressed
Planning and Assessment (ISLLC standard 3)Instructional Leadership (ISLLC standard 1)
Professionalism (ISLLC standards 5 & 6)
Program Goals and Objectives
By the end of this program, participants will learn how to:
- Identify key research-based instructional and learning strategies.
- Align instructional strategies with objectives.
- Choose strategies based on different cognitive levels.
- Use non-linguistic strategies including drawing-to-learn strategies.
- Design and use high-impact thinking maps.
- Design other high-impact graphic organizers (e.g., comparison matrix, Venn diagrams, mind maps).
- Create questions related to different levels of thinking: recall, relate, connect, and create.
- Create and use activities that help students classify and categorize information.
- Design several types of concept attainment strategies.
- Create interactive notebooks.
- Provide structure for helping students learn vocabulary.
Program Format
This engaging and interactive program is delivered in a workshop setting.Target Audience
- district-level instructional leadership administrators
- school improvement teams
- administrators
- lead teachers
- special education administrators
- Title I administrators
- school leaders not yet making AYP
- aspiring school or district leaders
Self-Selection and/or Identification Through School Division
No, unless a district wishes to have self-selection. Yes, this is a district-sponsored program.Duration of Program
- Option 1: Presented in one day (5-6 hours)
- Option 2: Presented in two days (10-12 hours)
Outcomes Measured
The work of each participant is reviewed during this workshop to ensure all participants leave with the skills of designing high-quality strategies. Participants are expected to apply the strategies to their own curriculum during the workshop.Program Evaluation
Participants complete an online or paper survey; results are reported back to the host district.Contact Information
Mark and Deborah Wahlstrom
Successline Inc.
137 Pitchkettle Point Circle
Suffolk, Virginia 23434
office: 757-539-6513
fax: 757-539-6523
mobile: 757-650-3388
Mark.Wahlstrom@successlineinc.com
datadeb@successlineinc.com
www.successlineinc.com