Project CRISS: Teaching Comprehension to Adolescent Learners

Project CRISS is a teaching and learning process that employs strategies to help students understand their learning processes and content, and transfer these strategies to independent learning situations. The CRISS training introduces teachers to the CRISS Strategic Learning Plan, which guides the selection of content, setting of learning goals and objectives, assessment of student learning, and planning of instruction. The training is designed to instruct participants in ways to help their students interact with content, understand patterns and structures of text, engage actively in the learning process, write reports and essays, and learn new vocabulary. The training also addresses ways teachers can help students become more reflective (metacognitive) about their learning processes.