Strategic Instruction Model (SIM®)
Content Enhancement

Target Audience:	~General education teachers with academically diverse classrooms that include students with disabilities, grades 4-12
	~General education teachers and Exceptional education teachers in collaborative/co-teaching classrooms

Content Enhancement is one component of the Strategic Instruction Model® (SIM) developed by the Center for Research on Learning at the University of Kansas. It is an approach to planning instruction for and teaching content to diverse groups of students. Content Enhancement Routines enable general education teachers to:

• select critical content outcomes
• use instructional devices to highlight key elements of the content
• present information in an easy to understand, memorable format
• facilitates problem-solving and critical thinking skills

The Content Enhancement Series is a set of guidebooks that can be used to teach large amounts of content to academically diverse classes in “learner friendly” ways. Specifically, the routines have been developed to help teachers enhance content and improve learners’ ability to organize, understand and remember critical information. Each guidebook in the series focuses on an important aspect of the teaching process.