Planning Powerful Instruction, Grades 2-5

7 Must-Make Moves to Transform How We Teach--and How Students Learn
Jeffrey D. Wilhelm - Boise State University, Idaho
Jackie Miller - Instructional Coach
Christopher Butts - Title I Coach
Adam Fachler - School in the Square
Corwin Literacy
Planning Powerful Instruction, Grades 2-5
April 2020 | 320 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

About the Authors

Introduction

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. Introducing 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 a Caring Community and Collaborative Classroom Culture: A Prerequisite for Inquiry as Cognitive Apprenticeship (ICA)
  • Chapter 7. Priming and Orienting Learners Through Essential Questions
  • Chapter 8. Priming and Orienting Learners Through Frontloading

PART 4: WALKING THROUGH, EXTENDING, AND EXPLORING

  • Chapter 9. Walking Learners Through With Visualization Strategies
  • Chapter 10. Walking Learners Through With Think-Aloud Strategies
  • Chapter 11. Walking Learners Through With Questioning
  • Chapter 12. Extending Expertise With Collaborative Group Structures
  • Chapter 13. Extending Expertise by Promoting Deep Discussion

PART 5: REFLECTING

  • Chapter 14. Reflecting Through Formative Assessments and to Cultivate a Spirit of Transfer
  • Chapter 15. Putting It All Together: Pursuing Real-World Culminating Projects and Performance-Based Summative Assessments

Concluding Thoughts: What’s Next? An EMPOWERed Vision of Our Future Teaching and Learning

Concluding Thoughts: What’s Next? An EMPOWERed Vision of Our Future Teaching and Learning

References

References

Index

Index

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

About the Authors

Introduction

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. Introducing 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 a Caring Community and Collaborative Classroom Culture: A Prerequisite for Inquiry as Cognitive Apprenticeship (ICA)
  • Chapter 7. Priming and Orienting Learners Through Essential Questions
  • Chapter 8. Priming and Orienting Learners Through Frontloading

PART 4: WALKING THROUGH, EXTENDING, AND EXPLORING

  • Chapter 9. Walking Learners Through With Visualization Strategies
  • Chapter 10. Walking Learners Through With Think-Aloud Strategies
  • Chapter 11. Walking Learners Through With Questioning
  • Chapter 12. Extending Expertise With Collaborative Group Structures
  • Chapter 13. Extending Expertise by Promoting Deep Discussion

PART 5: REFLECTING

  • Chapter 14. Reflecting Through Formative Assessments and to Cultivate a Spirit of Transfer
  • Chapter 15. Putting It All Together: Pursuing Real-World Culminating Projects and Performance-Based Summative Assessments

Concluding Thoughts: What’s Next? An EMPOWERed Vision of Our Future Teaching and Learning

Concluding Thoughts: What’s Next? An EMPOWERed Vision of Our Future Teaching and Learning

References

References

Index

Index

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Planning Powerful Instruction, Grades 2-5

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

Jeffrey D. Wilhelm , Jackie Miller , Christopher Butts , 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. Introducing 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 a Caring Community and Collaborative Classroom Culture: A Prerequisite for Inquiry as Cognitive Apprenticeship (ICA)
  • Chapter 7. Priming and Orienting Learners Through Essential Questions
  • Chapter 8. Priming and Orienting Learners Through Frontloading
  • PART 4: WALKING THROUGH, EXTENDING, AND EXPLORING
  • Chapter 9. Walking Learners Through With Visualization Strategies
  • Chapter 10. Walking Learners Through With Think-Aloud Strategies
  • Chapter 11. Walking Learners Through With Questioning
  • Chapter 12. Extending Expertise With Collaborative Group Structures
  • Chapter 13. Extending Expertise by Promoting Deep Discussion
  • PART 5: REFLECTING
  • Chapter 14. Reflecting Through Formative Assessments and to Cultivate a Spirit of Transfer
  • Chapter 15. Putting It All Together: Pursuing Real-World Culminating Projects and Performance-Based Summative Assessments
  • Concluding Thoughts: What’s Next? An EMPOWERed Vision of Our Future Teaching and Learning
  • References
  • Index

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