STWEL: Overview

When choosing to implement a new strategy, pick one and use it until it's automatic for both you and your students. When you decide on a technology tool, pick ONE. There are a lot of digital tools available, but it's a distraction if you try to implement all of them. Pick ONE.

One strategy, one digital tool.

Before You Pick a Strategy....

Strategies you use are more effective when they match the learning intention and students' phase of learning.

(Source: Hattie, Fisher and Frey. Visible Learning for Mathematics, 2017.

Want to maximize student growth? Select instructional strategies that work best for different phase of learning your students are in.

"What and when are equally important when it comes to instruction that has an impact on learning.

Matching the right approach with the appropriate phase of learning is the critical lesson to be learned." - Hattie, Fisher and Frey (Visible Learning for Mathematics, 2017)


Have you ever used the right strategy at the wrong time?

Approaches that facilitate students' surface-level learning do not work equally well for deep learning, and vice versa.

Evidence-Based Strategies

There are a wide variety of strategies. Some work well and are supported by extensive research. Others do not work as well. Below you will find a variety of literacy friendly strategies. They are organized by learning intention.

Want to increase Reading Fluency?

What's the best way to find out what your students' phase of learning is?

Conduct formative assessments to gauge what phase of learning students are in.

I have an Evidence-Based Strategy. Now, how do I match it to a digital tool?

Matching High-Effect Size Instructional Strategies and Digital Tools

In this document, you will find high-effect size instructional strategies with suggested digital tools. The list is not exhaustive of tools or strategies, however, adopt these strategies to accelerate student growth in one year above the hinge point (.40). The strategies are organized according to core, surface, deep, or transfer learning.

Activity

In a few moments, we'll divide up to explore the three different learning intentions (e.g. Surface, Deep, Transfer), as well as three strategies for each of those. To do that, we'll use a surface learning strategy known as The Jigsaw Method.