The New Classroom Instruction That Works: The Best Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement

The book that inspired millions of educators to refine their approach to teaching returns for an all-new third edition. Built on a more rigourous research base and updated to emphasise student diversity, equity, and inclusion, The New Classroom Instruction That Works offers a streamlined focus on the 14 instructional strategies proven to promote deep, meaningful, and lasting learning:

• Cognitive interest cues
• Student goal setting and monitoring
• Vocabulary instruction
• Strategy instruction and modelling
• Visualisations and concrete examples
• High-level questions and student explanations
• Guided initial application with formative feedback
• Peer-assisted consolidation of learning
• Retrieval practice
• Spaced and mixed independent practice
• Targeted support
• Cognitive writing
• Guided investigations
• Structured problem solving

These strategies—all of which are effective and complementary—are presented within a framework geared toward instructional planning and aligned with how the brain learns. For each strategy, you'll get the key research findings, the important principles of classroom practice, and recommended approaches for using the strategy with today's learners.

Both new and veteran teachers will finish this book with a better understanding of how effective teaching boosts student achievement and a clearer idea of what to do, when to do it, and why.

The New Classroom Instruction That Works: The Best Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement is authored by Bryan Goodwin and Kristin Rouleau with Cheryl Abla, Karen Baptiste, Tonia Gibson, and Michele Kimball.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Professionalizing Education

Chapter 1. Helping Students Become Interested in Learning

Chapter 2. Helping Students Commit to Learning

Chapter 3. Helping Students Focus on New Learning

Chapter 4. Helping Students Make Sense of Learning

Chapter 5. Helping Students Practice and Reflect

Chapter 6. Helping Students Extend and Apply Learning

Chapter 7. Bringing It All Together

Appendix: Research Studies Supporting The New Classroom Instruction That Works

References

About the Authors