Identify the quick instructional wins that will help every student be successful. This in-depth action guide by James A. Nottingham, creator of the renowned teaching model the Learning Pit, distills cutting-edge research and best practices from classrooms worldwide. Flip to any chapter to access just-in-time strategies for engaging students, providing optimum challenge, ensuring meaningful feedback, raising expectations, and building equity for all students.
This book will help you:
- Make small changes to your instructional practice that will lead to significant gains in student learning
- Boost the engagement of all your students
- Provide optimum levels of challenge
- Ensure your students use feedback brilliantly
- Lift expectations so that all students make excellent progress
- Use lessons from a broad range of meta-analyses to strengthen equity
- Justify your pedagogical decisions through the confident use of empirical data
Contents:
Introduction: Learning Is Driven by What Teachers and Students Do Together
Chapter 1: When You Adjust Your Teaching, It Transforms Their Learning
Chapter 2: When You Engage Your Students, Their Learning Gains Purpose
Chapter 3: When Challenge Is Just Right, Their Abilities Improve
Chapter 4: When Feedback Is Used Brilliantly, It Adds Significant Value
Chapter 5: When Expectations Are High, Everybody Prospers
Chapter 6: When There Is Equity, There Is Fairness
Epilogue: Post-Credit Encores
References and Resources
Index