High Impact Teaching Strategies

Study Notes

The Deputy Secretary's message emphasizes the importance of teachers working together to improve their practice, leading to improved student learning.
The Framework for Improving Student Outcomes (FISO) is used to drive strategic and annual planning at the whole school level.

HITS are designed for teachers, professional learning communities, and school leaders.
The strategies provide feedback, structured lessons, explicit teaching, worked examples, collaborative learning, multiple exposures, questioning, and metacognitive strategies.

Effective teachers set and communicate clear lesson goals to help students understand the success criteria.
The lesson design reinforces learning informed by clearly identified goals and formative assessment.
Time on task is optimized, and student engagement is maintained.

A worked example is a demonstration of the steps required to complete a task or solve a problem.
Worked examples support skill acquisition and reduce the cognitive load for learners.
The teacher presents a worked example to students, explaining each step, and later, students use worked examples during independent practice to review and embed new knowledge.
Worked examples are effective in demonstrating what success looks like, and how to achieve success.

Collaborative learning relies on students actively participating in negotiating roles, responsibilities, and outcomes.
The teacher designs meaningful tasks and invites group responses to questions, promoting an atmosphere of cooperation and collaboration.
Collaborative learning is supported by differentiating learning, assigning group content based on student readiness, and promoting interactions by organizing students in flexible groupings.