List of Resources
Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
1. The History of “Intelligence”
References and Resources
2. Malleable Intelligence: The Evidence—Attribution Retraining and
the Growth Mindset
Data Challenging the Innate Ability Theory
Attribution Retraining
References and Resources
3. Verbal Behavior in Nine Arenas of Classroom Life
1. Calling on Students
2. Responses to Student Answers
3. Giving Help
4. Changing Attitudes Toward Errors
5. Giving Tasks and Assignments
6. Feedback According to Criteria for Success With Encouragement
and Precise Diagnostic Guidance
7. Positive Framing of Re-Teaching
8. Tenacity When Students Don’t Meet Expectations
9. Pushback on Fixed Mindset Language and Student Helplessness
References and Resources
4. Regular Classroom Mechanisms for Generating Student Agency
10. Frequent Quizzes and a Flow of Data to Students
11. Student Self-Corrections/Self-Scoring
12. Student Error Analysis
13. Regular Re-Teaching
14. Required Retakes and Redos With Highest Grade
15. Cooperative Learning Protocols and Teaching of Group Skills
16. Student Feedback to Teacher on Pace or Need for
Clarification
17. Reward System for Effective Effort and Gains
18. Extra Help
19. Student Goal Setting
References and Resources
5. No Secrets Instructional Strategies That Support Student
Agency
20. Communicating Objectives
21. Criteria for Success
22. Exemplars
23. Checking for Understanding
24. Making Students’ Thinking Visible
25. Frequent Student Summarizing
6. Teaching Effective Effort
26. Effective Effort Behaviors
27. Student Self-Evaluation of Effective Effort
28. Learning Study and Other Strategies of Successful Students
29. Attribution Theory and Brain Research
References and Resources
7. Choices That Generate Agency: Voice, Ownership, and
Influence
30. Stop My Teaching
31. Student-Generated Questions
32. Negotiating the Rules of the Classroom Game
33. Teaching Students the Principles of Learning
34. Learning Style
35. Non-Reports and Student Experts
36. Culturally Relevant Teaching
37. Student-Led Parent Conferences
References and Resources
8. Schoolwide Policies and Procedures
38. Hiring Teachers
39. Assignment of Teachers
40. Personalizing Knowledge of and Contact With Students
41. Scheduling
42. Grouping
43. Content-Focused Teams That Examine Student Work in Relation to
Their Teaching
44. Reward System for Academic Effort and Gains
45. Push, Support, and Tight Safety Net (Hierarchy of
Intervention)
46. Quality Afterschool Programs and Extracurricular Activities
47. Building Identity and Pride in Belonging to the School
48. Creating a Vision of a Better Life Attainable Through Learning
the Things School Teaches
49. Forming an Image of Successful People Who Look Like Them and
Value Education
50. Building Relations With Parents Through Home Visits and Focus
on How to Help
References and Resources
9. Conclusion
What Leaders Do
Teacher Preparation
Obstacles
Coda
References and Resources
Appendix A. Case Studies in High Expectations Teaching and
Attribution Retraining
Teacher Case Studies
Administrator Case Studies
Appendix B. Levels of Sophistication of Common Planning Time (CPT)
Activities
Appendix C. Hierarchy of Interventions
Appendix D. Goal-Setting Experiments
Appendix E. Kristin Allison’s Log
Appendix F. Effort Books: A Bibliography
Index
Dr. Jon Saphier is the Founder and President of Research for Better
Teaching, Inc., an educational consulting organization in Acton,
Massachusetts that is dedicated to the professionalization of
teaching and leadership. He is a recognized expert on
supervision, evaluation, staff development, and adult professional
culture. Since 1979, he and his RBT colleagues have taught in-depth
professional development programs centered on the knowledge base of
teaching to educators in hundreds of school districts each year in
the United States and overseas.
In 2001, he was appointed a panel member for the National Research
Council of the National Academy of Sciences to study the best
methods for transferring research knowledge to classroom practice.
In 2010 RBT’s Skillful Teacher model was adopted by the country of
Singapore as their national program for training beginning
teachers.
Beginning in the summer of 2001, Dr. Saphier became a member of the
core faculty for aspiring urban principals of New Leaders for New
Schools. Additionally, Research for Better Teaching provides
training on “Observing and Analyzing Teaching” to KIPP principals
and KIPP teacher leaders continuing to the present. /p>
Sloan-Kettering’s annual IDEA Institutes voted him “Best of the
Best” for their first 25-year history. Dr. Saphier presents each
year at Ron Ferguson’s Achievement Gap Initiative Conference at
Harvard. Dr. Saphier has done on-site coaching to over 1,000
principals on instructional leadership.
He has a bachelors from Amherst College, and a masters degree from
the London School of Economics. He was a combat medic in Vietnam.
After the war he entered teaching and holds degrees in early
childhood from Univ. of Mass. and a doctorate from Boston
University. He has been a high school history teacher and has
taught fifth grade, second grade, first grade and kindergarten. He
has been an administrator and a staff developer in an urban K-8
school.
He is an author and co-author of nine books, including The Skillful
Teacher in its 7th edition as well as numerous articles. The
Skillful Teacher has sold over a half million copies and is the
bible of teaching in hundreds of districts around the country. It
is used as a text in 60 university teacher preparation programs,
including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown,
Middlebury and Williams.
RBT designed and trained all administrators on their Professional
Growth System in Fairfax Va. late 80s through early 90s, Montgomery
County Public Schools late 90s through the present, and 50 other
districts nation-wide. RBT provides continued support for
Montgomery County’s "Center for Skillful Teaching".
"Students and teachers need the language to learn how to support
one another in their growth. High Expectations Teaching
provides not only that language, but also strategies to lead
student and teachers to an understanding of the potential for
improvement."
*Kelly Minick, English Teacher and Instructional Coach*
"High Expectations Teaching is a must read for anyone committed to
creating equitable school systems allowing all students, especially
students in poverty, educational opportunities for enhancing their
lives. Included is a strong research base with practical
instructional strategies for creating positive interactions with
students, and suggestions for impactful school level policies and
procedures."
*Janice Bradley, Author and School Improvement Specialist*
"The techniques in High Expectations Teaching will help us all
become better teachers for our students."
*Penn Valley Community College*
Ask a Question About this Product More... |