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Research into Practice.

In 1985 Ron Brandt, executive director of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, said that Madeline Hunter "has had more influence on U.S. teachers in the last ten years than any other person." Hunter's popularity was based on her instructional-theory-into-practice (ITIP) model for effective teaching, which was designed to "teach more faster" in all disciplines and to all grade levels. Her training first as a practicing psychologist and later as a school psychologist served as the foundation for her ITIP model. This model translated her research in behavioral and social psychology into eight sequential steps for every teacher to follow in any given lesson.

ITIP Model.

To follow the Hunter ITIP model, the teacher initiates an anticipatory set, determines objectives, gives input, models the task, checks for understanding, guides practice, assigns independent practice, then offers closure. According to Hunter, the ITIP...