Planning Powerful Instruction, Grades 6-12

7 Must-Make Moves to Transform How We Teach--and How Students Learn

Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Rachel Bear, Adam Fachler

• Publisher: Corwin
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781544342863
• eBook ISBN: 9781544342856
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Teaching Methods

Are you ready to plan your best lessons ever?

With so many demands and so much content available for teachers, we need to put a higher value on an often-overlooked skill: planning learning experiences that will both engage and inspire our students, by design, over time.

Planning Powerful Instruction is your go-to guide for transforming student outcomes through stellar instructional planning. Its seven-step framework—the EMPOWER model—gives you techniques proven to help students develop true insight and understanding. You'll have at your fingertips:

• the real reasons why students engage—and what you must do to ensure they do
• a framework to help you create, plan, and teach the most effective units and lessons in any subject area
• more than 50 actionable strategies to incorporate right away
• suggestions for tailoring units for a wide range of learners
• downloadable, ready-to-go tools for planning and teaching

Whether you are a classroom teacher, an instructional leader, or a pre-service teacher, Planning Powerful Instruction will forever change the way you think about how you teach and the unique value you bring to your learners.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Introduction
• Part 1: Transformative Planning and Instruction
• Chapter 1 What’s at Stake? Teaching Toward Expertise—With a Sense of Urgency
• Chapter 2 Making the Shift From Informational to Transformational Teaching
• Chapter 3 Introduction to the EMPOWER Canvas
• Part 2: Envisioning and Mapping
• Chapter 4 Envisioning the Destination Through Principled Planning Protocols
• Chapter 5 Mapping the Path to Mastery Through Task Deconstruction
• Part 3: Priming and Orienting
• Chapter 6 Priming Learners Through Caring Community and Collaborative Classroom Culture A Prerequisite “Must-Make Move” for ICA
• Chapter 7 Framing the Future Challenge Priming and Orienting Learning Through Essential Questions
• Chapter 8 Preparing Students for Success Priming and Orienting Learning Through Frontloading
• Part 4: Walking Through, Extending, and Exploring
• Chapter 9 Seeing Is Believing—and Understanding Walking Students Through With Visualization Strategies
• Chapter 10 Navigating New Terrain Walking Students Through With Think-Aloud Strategies
• Chapter 11 The Quest Is to Powerfully Question! Walking Students Through Expert Questioning Strategies
• Chapter 12 Setting Up Learners for Successful Collaboration Walking Through and Extending Expertise With Collaborative Group Structures
• Chapter 13 To Speak, to Be Heard, to Listen, and to Learn Extending Expertise With Discussions That Promote Deeper Understanding
• Part 5: Reflecting
• Chapter 14 Moving Into the Future Reflecting Through Assessments for and as Learning
• Chapter 15 Bringing It All Together Extending, Exploring, and Reflecting Through Culminating Projects and Assessments
• Concluding Thoughts What’s Next? An Empowered Vision of Our Future Teaching and Learning
• References and Resources
• Index
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