Planning Powerful Instruction, Grades 6-12

7 Must-Make Moves to Transform How We Teach--and How Students Learn
Jeffrey D. Wilhelm - Boise State University, Idaho
Rachel E. Bear - National Writing Project
Adam Fachler - School in the Square
Corwin Literacy
Planning Powerful Instruction, Grades 6-12
October 2019 | 296 pages | Corwin
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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.

Contents

Acknowledgments

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

Concluding Thoughts

References and Resources

References and Resources

Index

Index

Resources

Description

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.

Contents

Acknowledgments

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

Concluding Thoughts

References and Resources

References and Resources

Index

Index

Resources

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Planning Powerful Instruction, Grades 6-12

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

Jeffrey D. Wilhelm , Rachel E. Bear , Adam Fachler
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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:

  • 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
  • References and Resources
  • Index

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