Blueprints for Student Success
Blueprints is an intensive, teacher-friendly approach to instruction based on the research and practice of Reuven Feuerstein, Ruby Payne, Robert Dilts, and Betty Garner. Participants develop the skills, strategies,and approaches to accelerate and improve the learning process, as well as stabilizing student behavior. Blueprint educators create and maintain classrooms where “all students” learn the cognitive frameworks to experience success, both behaviorally and academically. This work is essential to student learning and highly recommended for schools under review, schools with struggling students, and schools experiencing changing populations. Blueprints for Student Success components include:
- Blueprints for Learning
- learning how mental models help students easily understand subject matter
- Blueprints for Higher Level Thinking
- showing students how to think, plan, organize and remember
- Blueprints for Instruction
- creating instructional strategies to enhance student cognitive development
- Blueprints for Visual Learning
- teaching visual learning strategies, the most powerful learning modality
- Blueprints for Success
- helping struggling students, emotionally and academically
- Blueprints for Behavior
- helping students with impulsivity and self-control