Focused Instruction: An Innovative Teaching Model for All Learners

Focused Instruction: An Innovative Teaching Model for All Learners introduces one of the most powerful instructional models available to teachers. The focused instruction model is a well-planned, standards-based lesson map. This map includes the teaching components that are crucial for a deep, long-term understanding of individual student learning needs. Focused instruction involves sequential instruction that is purposeful, engaging, relevant, and customized for unique learners. This book organizes this teaching model into manageable chunks, providing teachers with a simple and highly effective processone that empowers them to address their students' unique learning needs.

The individual components of the focused instruction model are not original, never-been-done-before innovations. The steps of focused instruction are based on specific features of existing models that have been shown by research to be highly effective for student achievement. Focused instruction brings these best practices together in a powerful new model and provides a step-by-step guide for teachers, along with the tools they need to support diverse learners.

Gwen Doty delivers seminars nationwide, emphasizing customized strategies based on student readiness. The creator of numerous accredited graduate courses for educators and the co-developer of an online instructional database, Gwen has acquired a depth of experience in many areas as a teacher, an administrator, and a professional development specialist. She holds an advanced degree in oral communications, and throughout her career she has trained teachers and parents in the best ways to communicate with students. Gwen has long advocated the integration of emotional and social components in academic lessons. Currently, she is an independent educational consultant. When not speaking and writing, she raises alpacas with her husband in Chino Valley, Arizona.