THE STRATEGIC INSTRUCTION MODEL:

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THE STRATEGIC INSTRUCTION MODELKansas
Strategies

• University of Kansas
• Center for Research on Learning
• Lynsey Hust

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What questions will be answered today?

• What is the Center for Research on Learning?
• What is the Strategic Instruction Model?
• What are learning strategies?
• How do we make it happen?
• What are the effective strategies supported and
  field tested?

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What is the Center for Research on Learning?
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What is the CRL?(Center for Research on Learning)

• Founded in 1978
• Mission Dramatically improve the performance of
  at-risk students through research-based
  interventions
• 70 million dollars of contracted RD
• 275,000 teachers in 3,500 school districts

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CRL

• For 25 years, they have conducted research
  designed to develop ways to help students meet
  the demands of life, not just in school but after
  they leave school as well.
• The overriding goal has been to develop an
  integrated model to address many of the needs of
  diverse learners.

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Strategic Instruction Model (SIM)

• Out of this effort, the Strategic Instruction
  Model, or SIM, has evolved.
• In essence, SIM is about promoting effective
  teaching and learning of critical content in
  schools.
• SIM strives to help teachers make decisions about
  what is of greatest importance, what we can teach
  students to help them to learn, and how to teach
  them well.
• We advocate trying to teach a little less
  content, but teaching it better.

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What is the Strategic Instruction Model?
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What is S.I.M.

• The Strategic Instruction Model is an integrated
  model of research-validated practices to address
  many of the needs of diverse learners. It has
  been under development for 25 years at the
  University of Kansas-Center for Research on
  Learning.

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What are learning strategies?
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What are learning strategies?

• Approaches to teaching students how to think
  about and solve problems, orteaching students
  how to learn
• Learning strategies are used by students to help
  them understand information and solve problems.
• A learning strategy is a person's approach to
  learning and using information.

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How do we make it happen?
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If you dont plan for execution, nothing
significant will happen!

• Execution is the great unaddressed issue in the
  business world today. Its absence is the single
  biggest obstacle to success and the cause of many
  of the disappointments that are mistakenly
  attributed to other causes
• The key to making strategic instruction a reality
  is to realize that it takes time (months-years)
  and a strong administrative and instructional
  commitment.

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Pathways to Success

• Partnership
• Provide numerous supports for academic success
  (tutoring, direct instruction, parent education)
• Instructional coaches in middle and high schools
• Professional Learning Communities

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Professional Learning Communities

• Get the right people on board
• Target standards
• Develop positive cultural norms
• Be tightly organized
• Employ coaches to lead small groups
• Develop powerful tools
• Keep learning from each other
• Provide follow-up to ensure fidelity

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What are the effective strategies supported and
field tested?
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Learning Strategies

• Strategies for reading
• Strategies for studying remembering information
  
• Strategies for writing
• Strategies for improving assignment test
  performance
• Strategies for effectively interacting with
  others
• Strategies for motivation
• Strategies for math

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Strategies for reading

• Word Identification Strategy
• Self-Questioning Strategy
• Visual Imagery Strategy
• Inference Strategy
• Fundamentals of Paraphrasing and Summarizing
• Paraphrasing Strategy

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Strategies for studying remembering information

• FIRST-Letter Mnemonic Strategy
• Paired Associates Strategy
• LINCS Vocabulary Strategy

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Strategies for writing

• Sentence Writing Strategy (Fundamentals)
• Sentence Writing Strategy (Proficiency)
• Paragraph Writing Strategy
• Theme Writing (Fundamentals)
• Error Monitoring Strategy
• InSPECT Strategy (for word-processing
  spellcheckers)

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Strategies for improving assignment test
performance

• Assignment Completion Strategy
• Strategic Tutoring
• Test-Taking Strategy
• Essay Test-Taking Strategy

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Strategies for effectively interacting with
others

• SLANT - A Classroom Participation Strategy
• Cooperative Thinking Strategies
• THINK Strategy (Problem Solving)
• LEARN Strategy (Learning Critical Information)
• BUILD Strategy (Decision Making)
• SCORE Skills Social Skills for Cooperative
  Groups
• Teamwork Strategy
• The Community Building Series
• Focusing Together
• Following Instructions Together
• Organizing Together
• Taking Notes Together
• Talking Together

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Strategies for motivation

• Self-Advocacy Strategy
• Possible Selves

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Strategies for math

• Strategic Math Series
• Addition Facts 0 to 9
• Addition Facts 10 to 18
• Subtraction Facts 0 to 9
• Subtraction Facts 10 to 18
• Multiplication Facts 0 to 81
• Division Facts 0 to 81
• Place Value

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Learning Strategies

• Are used by students to help them understand
  information and solve problems.
• Is a person's approach to learning and using
  information.
• Learning strategy instruction focuses on making
  the students more active learners by teaching
  them how to learn and how to use what they have
  learned to solve problems and be successful.