
Ambitious Instruction
Teaching With Rigor in the Secondary Classroom (A resource guide for increasing rigor in the classroom and complex problem-solving)
- 200 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Ambitious Instruction
Teaching With Rigor in the Secondary Classroom (A resource guide for increasing rigor in the classroom and complex problem-solving)
About this book
Ensure all learners have opportunities to engage deeply in meaningful intellectual work. In Ambitious Instruction, author Brad Cawn offers a blueprint for how to make rigor visible, accessible, and actionable in grade 6–12 classrooms. The resource guides readers toward using the twin tenets of problem-based learning and synthesis to significantly strengthen students' ability to read, write, and think within and across disciplines.
Use this resource to reinvigorate and modernize daily learning and instruction:
- Develop a working understanding of rigor that will serve as the basis for rigorous, instructional excellence.
- Discover how to integrate inquiry and dialogue into your instruction to help learners engage in meaningful exploration of complex problems.
- Become familiar with actionable strategies that can be utilized to develop and increase rigor in the classroom.
- Learn how to create and organize tasks, texts, and processes in order to improve teaching and learning.
Contents:
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
About the Author
Introduction: Redefining Rigor
Chapter 1: Determining What Rigor Will Look Like
Chapter 2: Exploring the Two Tenets of Ambitious Instruction
Chapter 3: Creating an Ambitious Instruction Road Map
Chapter 4: Building Structured Inquiry to Power Ambitious Instruction
Chapter 5: Facilitating Ambitious Instruction Through Dialogue
Chapter 6: Launching and Sustaining Ambitious Instruction
References and Resources
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- Introduction: Redefining Rigor
- Chapter 1: Getting Started on Ambitious Instruction: Building Curriculum Around Problems
- Chapter 2: Planning Ambitious Instruction: How to Connect Problems to Practice
- Chapter 3: Implementing Ambitious Instruction
- Chapter 4: Facilitating Ambitious Instruction
- Chapter 5: Supporting and Sustaining Ambitious Instruction
- References and Resources
- Index