Friday Feedback - 2/26/21
GRR Instruction = Student Engagement
GRR - Solid Instructional Practices = High Levels of Engagement
The Gradual Release of Responsibility is a proven instructional model that when utilized effectively will increase student engagement and growth towards mastery of the standards. It's simply best practice that the best teachers have been using from the beginning of education - Fisher and Frey just put a name to it.
During the summer of 2014, I was fortunate to be in attendance for Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey's FIT Teaching Workshop where they provided their expertise on the GRR. Doug and Nancy both pointed out during this session that the feature of the GRR that has been the most beneficial to their district's impressive increases in student achievement is the collaborative/productive group work and the student discussion which accompanies it as part of the GRR.
Thanks for committing to these features all the way to the very end of school to help keep learning at the center of what we do as much as possible.
GRR Framework Visual
Visual from Fisher/Frey FIT Teaching
The Sweet Spot = When it all comes together, it truly is magical!
GRR = BEST INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE - PERIOD.
Benefits of the Gradual Release of Responsibility
- Research-based strategies with proven results in student achievement, graduation rates, and improving school cultures
- Insurance that the Characteristics of Effective Instruction are present in daily instruction
- Insurance that students learn and practice 21st century skills and collaboration almost daily
- Instructional model to ensure daily formative assessment and guided instruction
- Instructional model to create and maintain positive student-to-student and teacher-to-student relationships
Bottom line: GRR is Best Practice
What Effective Educators Do Differently -
Effective Teachers :
Engage students in active learning
Create intellectually ambitious tasks
Use a variety of teaching strategies
Assess student learning continuously and adapt teaching to student needs
Create effective scaffolds and supports
Provide clear standards, constant feedback, and opportunities for revising work
Develop and effectively manage a collaborative classroom in which all students have membership
(the strategies of effective teachers from 25 years ago or more are still effective strategies today)
A Must Read GRR Article!
When learners experience difficulty and confusion, they need guided instruction, not more modeling. Frustrated learners already know that their teachers can complete the tasks; they've seen their teachers do so several times over. What a frustrated learner needs is direction and practice, with scaffolding in place to ensure success.
What's Coming Up?
Thursday 3/4 - MS/HS Pops Concert
Friday 3/5 - Parade of Bands
Monday 3/8 - 2 Hour Delay; P/T Conferences
Thursday 3/11 - 12:30 Dismissal; P/T Conferences
Friday 3/12 - No School
Monday 3/15 - No School