High-Impact Teaching for Student Success

Course description

NUMBER OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT HOURS:
45 hours

Have you recently transitioned to a new role or grade level? Are you in your first five years of teaching? Designed specifically for new and alternatively certified teachers, this hybrid experience bridges the gap between theory and day-to-day classroom reality. Through a dynamic combination of on-demand webinars, live synchronous classes, and personalized collaborative coaching sessions, you will master foundational instructional techniques that drive student success.

Whether you are working with a rigid, scripted curriculum or trying to weave multiple programs together, this course gives you the concrete tools and executive support you need to feel grounded and effective.

Together, we will explore:

The Big Picture Alignment: Look at your entire school year, map out how all your programs and materials fit together, and define your overarching instructional goals.

Macro to Micro Planning: Master the art of unit planning and learn how to break down broad standards into daily, actionable objectives.

Navigating Scripted Curricula: Discover how to effectively lesson plan with a scripted curriculum while balancing the unique needs of your students, ensuring you meet curriculum requirements without losing your voice or student engagement.

High-Impact Instructional Techniques: Deep dive into proven frameworks like the Gradual Release of Responsibility (“I Do, We Do, You Do”), incorporating meaningful student choice to build motivation, and establishing effective classroom routines.

Assessment with Purpose: Learn to design and analyze formative and summative assessment practices that inform your daily instruction and highlight student growth.

To directly bridge these concepts into your daily teaching, you will actively build high-impact artifacts throughout the course. You will design an explicit instruction lesson centered on the gradual release of responsibility (“I Do, We Do, You Do”), draft a scripting guide to help inform your lesson pacing and proactively plan for behavior management, and build a formative assessment integration matrix to track data-driven hinge points. Throughout the course, you will submit short written reflections processing readings and information, all culminating in a final reflection project, which can be collaboratively iterated on during your collaborative coaching sessions.

This format is uniquely built for the busy schedules of new educators, offering a blend of flexible independent learning and structured, real-time virtual sessions.

This course is invaluable for first- to fifth-year classroom teachers, alternatively certified educators, long-term substitutes, and mentors looking for a structured framework to support new staff.

This training aligns with Standards 3, 4G, and 5 of the Knowledge and Practice Standards (KPS) from the International Dyslexia Association and may count toward continuing education requirements for educators certified through the Center for Effective Reading Instruction.