The Gradual Release of Responsibility instructional framework purposefully shifts the cognitive load from teacher-as-model, to joint responsibility of teacher and learner, to independent practice and application by the learner (Pearson & Gallagher, 1983). It stipulates that the teacher moves from assuming "all the responsibility for performing a task … to a situation in which the students assume all of the responsibility" (Duke & Pearson, 2002, p. 211). This gradual release may occur over a day, a week, a month, or a year. Graves and Fitzgerald (2003) note that "effective instruction often follows a progression in which teachers gradually do less of the work and students gradually assume increased responsibility for their learning. It is through this process of gradually assuming more and more responsibility for their learning that students become competent, independent learners" (p. 98). PD, training and coaching will demonstrate how the Gradual Release of Responsiblity Framework can dhelp address learning loss through the use of modeling, student collaboration, foramtive assessments to drive the pace of instruction and use of feedback to close educational gaps developed during the pandemic. Priorities -Structured teaching requires that teachers know their students and content well, that they regularly assess students' understanding of the content, and that they purposefully plan interrelated lessons that transfer responsibility from the teacher to the student.

PRIORITIES
-Guided Instruction, Collaborating Learning, and Independent Learning.
-Providing clarity to your students by writing and using daily learning targets and success criteria to monitor evidence of student learning
-Using formative assessments to guide instructional decisions that inform small group and whole group instruction
-Teaching and planning small group instruction
-Embedding daily collaborative learning opportunities for students
-Address Loss of Learning
-Support Recovery

Category

Instructional Learning Redevelopment

Topic

Instructional Practices

For additional information visit:

https://sites.google.com/cesa7.org/cesa7services/home/gradual-release-of-responsibility

Contact for additional information:

CESA 7
Marci Waldron-Kuhn, Ed.D.
Phone: (920)617-5617