Cross Content Instructional Routines
Middle and High School Routines for Information Synthesis and Student Talk
Are you looking for ways to increase student joy, curiosity and meaningful connectivity, and to make learning 'sticky'?
New Visions for Public Schools has developed a series of instructional routines for engaging into content, including a complete set of Micro-Routines for targeted information synthesis. Our routines have slides that can be plugged into lessons across content areas, giving students opportunities to do things like pause and mull over new learning, and to contribute their own thoughts and ideas. By strategically selecting Micro-Routines, teachers can develop specific cognitive sub-skills and learning behaviors in students, which ultimately will help to transfer ownership of learning from teachers to students.
All of our materials are Open Educational Resource (OER) and available in Google Drive. We encourage teachers to make their own copies to adapt for your own classroom.
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Teacher Testimonials
"The process of using routines truly puts the responsibility for making meaning in the students' hands. There is a point where you see their uncertainty at the brink of a student-centered moment, and then they follow the routine and feel success. That moment is really important in moving them towards being independent learners.”
“The handbook has afforded me the opportunity to use strategies that actually work. It also provides models to help teachers, like myself, obtain a better grasp of the activity. One of my favorites strategies from the handbook is the Silent Carousel because it gives all students an equal chance to engage in a discussion in different ways."