Implement CRISS through modeled strategies, guided practice, and extended follow-up support for teachers¶

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Description¶

Project CRISS® "employs a teaching and learning process in which teachers model strategies for students and provide time for guided practice," with goals of helping students understand their learning processes and transfer strategies to independent learning. The professional development model mirrors this: initial training (12 hours in the 1994 study; 18 hours plus six hours of follow-up in the 2009 trial) in which trainers model strategies and teachers apply them to their own curriculum materials, followed by on-site visits, demonstration lessons, newsletters, a computer network, monthly observations with feedback, and bi-weekly study teams.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• A local facilitator coordinates the program and organizes follow-up sessions three to six months after the final training

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• Classroom teachers in elementary, middle, and high schools implementing CRISS strategies with their students

Target Learning Goals¶

• Teacher adoption of comprehension-strategy instruction that fosters student independence

Affordances¶

• Criss Three Concepts Strategic Learning Framework

Related Strategies¶

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Project CRISS® (CReating Independence through Student-owned Strategies). (2010). WWC Intervention Report: Project CRISS®, Adolescent Literacy. U.S. Department of Education, What Works Clearinghouse. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/388