“FIT Teaching”

Douglas Fisher

 

Administrators’ Academy #1577 — Using Assessments to Empower Student Learning

ILSPS 1, 2          Domains 1, 3, 4

February 9, 2016 

How can we get our teaching practices in shape? FIT Teaching (Framework for Intentional and Targeted Teaching™) provides educators with the framework needed to do the right work in the classroom to support student learning and growth.

Four training tips to get your classroom “FIT” :

• Build and Sustain a Strong School and Classroom Culture—The actions, traditions, symbols, ceremonies, stories, and rituals that reflect the school’s mission
• Trim Distractions and Establish a Clear and Meaningful Purpose for Learning—An effective school operationalizes its mission by integrating academic outcomes with a positive school culture.
• Bulk up Instructional Practices by using the Gradual Release of Responsibility (GRR) – Intentionally designing and delivering scaffolded and guided instructional practices (i.e., focused instruction, guided instruction, collaborative learning, and independent learning) maximizes students’ learning.
• Increase Instructional Flexibility with a Quality Formative Assessment System—Descriptive and actionable feedback and classroom data should inform targeted future instruction.

 

FIT Teaching has been crafted so that district and building administrators and classroom teachers alike can embrace and immediately apply these four components. FIT Teaching will provide all educators with a cohesive teaching and learning framework that is intentional and targeted at improving student learning.

 

Douglas Fisher is Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College having been an early intervention teacher and elementary school educator. He is the recipient of an International Reading Association Celebrate Literacy Award, the Farmer award for excellence in writing from the National Council of Teachers of English, as well as a Christa McAuliffe award for excellence in teacher education. He has published numerous articles on reading and literacy, differentiated instruction, and curriculum design as well as books, such as Better Learning Through Structured Teaching, Rigorous Reading, and Text Complexity: Raising Rigor in Reading. He can be reached at [email protected].

 

Medinah Shrine Center 550 North Shriners Drive, Addison, Illinois

8:30 am—3:15 pm

Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:00 am – 8:30 am

Lunch is provided.

 

Program Fees (includes required Processing Fee for AAC/PD)

Individual Member or Partner District Member $210

Non-Member/Non-Partner $290