This current time in education has led to a series of unique circumstances that have caused students to fall behind and struggle. To overcome this, you can help your students accelerate to success.
The Goal
Our goal is simple: to provide you, the educator, with the tools to accelerate your teaching. This will help your students be more successful in today’s environment, and give you your Sunday back!
Accelerate
Your
Students!
Have students gotten behind in their studies during the recent pandemic? To whatever degree that has happened, schools now are very interested in accelerating the educational development of their students.
EDI Leads to Accelerated Instruction
Where to start? Recent research by John Hattie identified in statistical terms what works and what doesn’t in education. This has been called “the holy grail of education.” Hattie found there were 195 “influences” on education and ranked them by “effect size.”
Hattie said, “There is no fixed recipe for ensuring that teaching has the maximum possible effect on student learning, and no set of principles apply to all learning for all students. But there are practices that we know are effective and many practices that we know are not.”
DataWORKS, developer of the popular Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI) approach, analyzed Hattie’s research and found that EDI actually activates 18 of the top 30 effects. This has led to the development of the Dataworks Accelerated Instruction Model. By adopting EDI techniques for design and delivery that match with 18 of the top effects for Hattie’s visible learning, teachers can accelerate learning for their students and overcome any learning losses of recent times. (See Tables Below)
3 Core Strategies to Accelerate Student Learning
Strategy #1:
Engagement
Ensure that students are engaged throughout the initial lesson. Use Dataworks’ Engagement Norms.
The Engagement Norms provide eight ways to easily engage students in the lesson. It starts with pronouncing new words, tracking text on the screen, and reading with the teacher. Showing students gestures to remember the concept is also valuable. Pair-share allows every student to think about the answer and practice it using academic language. A specific signal can focus attention. Whiteboards help each student provide an answer, and using complete sentences helps students speak more formally.
Strategy #2:
GIFT (Great Initial First Teaching)
Ensure that the initial lesson reaches at least 80% of the classroom. This is accomplished by presenting a structured lesson for each new Learning Objective. Use Dataworks’ Lesson Design procedure.
Lesson Design works well when all seven of the core components of a lesson are included. This means lessons should start with a Learning Objective (based on standards). This can be followed by Activating prior Knowledge. Then, the Concept should be developed with clear definitions and examples. Skill Development should use specific steps and be followed with Guided Practice. Finally, Relevance should be discussed and students given a sample problem for Closure that demonstrates what they have learned.
Strategy #3:
Effective Feedback
Ensure that the students receive correct feedback from the teacher. Use Datworks’ Effective Feedback procedures.
The Engagement Norms provide eight ways to easily engage students in the lesson. It starts with pronouncing new words, tracking text on the screen, and reading with the teacher. Showing students gestures to remember the concept is also valuable. Pair-share allows every student to think about the answer and practice it using academic language. A specific signal can focus attention. Whiteboards help each student provide an answer, and using complete sentences helps students speak more formally.
A Researched Method of Acceleration
John Hattie found 195 “influences” on education and ranked them by “effect size.” Dataworks’ method activates 18 of the top 30 effects.
Dataworks Accelerated Instruction Model (AIM)
Dataworks Accelerated Instruction Model (AIM)
Dataworks EDI Strategies
| Hattie High Influence on Learning | Rank (of 195) |
EDI Professional Development |
| Collective Teacher Efficacy | 2 | Develops a culture of instructional excellence |
| Micro Teaching | 8 | Uses video, lesson demos, and feedback |
Dataworks Accelerated Instruction Model (AIM)
Dataworks EDI Lesson Design
| Hattie High Influence on Learning | Rank (of 195) |
EDI Professional Development |
| Conceptual Change Programs | 5 | Uses concept development with non-examples |
| Teacher Clarity | 13 | Focuses on LO, CD, SD, and CFUs |
| Concept Mapping | 20 | Often uses graphic organizers, some animation |
| Problem-Solving Teaching | 21 | Uses Skill Development and Extended Thinking |
| Classroom Behavioral | 22 | Relies on Engagement Norms |
| Vocabulary Programs | 24 | Embeds 2-7 vocab words in each lesson |
| Spaced vs Massed Practice | 27 | Supports lessons with 3 periodic reviews |
| Direct Instruction | 29 | Includes 7 lesson design components |
Dataworks Accelerated Instruction Model (AIM)
Dataworks EDI Lesson Delivery
| Hattie High Influence on Learning | Rank (of 195) |
EDI Professional Development |
| Teacher Credibility | 7 | Uses student Engagement Norms |
| Cognitive Task Analysis | 9 | Uses pair-shares, steps, and “explain your thinking” questions |
| Classroom Discussion | 10 | Uses sentence frames with academic vocabulary for frequent Pair-Shares and questions |
| Interventions for Special Needs | 11 | Extensive scaffolding and corrective feedback strategies to include all students in the lesson |
| Feedback | 15 | Uses Checking for Understanding to direct corrective feedback strategies |
| Formative evaluation | 16 | Uses Checking for Understanding questions while teaching. |
| Classroom Behavioral | 22 | Relies on Engagement Norms |
| Teaching Strategies | 28 | Uses modeling, steps, Checking for Understanding. Uses mirrored teacher-student problems. |
| Repeated Reading Program | 30 | Uses tracked and choral reading frequently |
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Over the years, we’ve seen the power of great instruction in the classroom. We’ve seen increases in all the achievement data, and, more importantly, an improved classroom environment where students are communicating their knowledge, and teachers are making great instructional decisions based on this communication.
What led you to our website? What are your goals? We love talking about instruction. If you can give us 10 minutes of your time, we can see if we are a fit for your goals.
joel@dataworks-ed.com
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Joel Soto
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