Seven High Quality Instructional Practices

John Hatie’s meta-analysis provides a summary of the most impactful instructional practices. The State Implementation and Scaling-up of Evidence-based Practices (SISEP) developed a tool to support the training of and operationalizing of seven of Hattie’s top instructional practices. The tool, Observation Tool for Instructional Supports and Systems (OTISS), provides a summary of these seven practices. In this post, I want to summarize the practices. Please recognize that, in using the practices, the key is to define what each component means in observable terms, to coach into the practices, and to use the tool as an assessment of the effectiveness of the coaching.

The seven high quality instructional practices used in the OTISS tool are:

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