The Take-Action Guide to World Class Learners Book 1

Yong Zhao - University of Kansas, USA
Homa Tavangar - Growing Up Global, Author
Emily McCarren
Gabriel F. Rshaid
Kay Tucker

Courses:
Instructional Design | School Change & Reform

October 2015 | 232 pages | Corwin

Your blueprint to entrepreneur-minded schooling

The Take-Action Guide to World Class Learners series provides the most complete information available on designing twenty-first century schools poised to leapfrog into the future! These practice-oriented books expand on Dr. Yong Zhao’s acclaimedWorld Class Learners, which presents a new framework for cultivating creative and entrepreneurial students. Now, with this first book in the follow-up three-volume set, Zhao digs much deeper, revealing how exactly to put that framework into effect.

This first book in the series provides specific strategies and practical advice on how to

Incorporate student choice for flexible, student-focused curriculum
Motivate students to turn strengths into passions
Cultivate students’ technical, creative, decision making, and communication skills

Implement Zhao’s new paradigm shift one phase at a time, starting with Book 1. Better yet, read all three volumes for a complete blueprint to entrepreneur-minded schooling.

“The ideal school should provide opportunities and resources to enable students to personalize their educational experiences instead of receiving a uniform standardized, externally prescribed, education diet.”
--Yong Zhao

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Introduction: Making World Class Learners

1. Personalization and Autonomy

2. Creating Your Own School: What Student-driven Curriculum Looks Like

3. Helping Students Turn Strengths Into Passions

4. Curriculum Flexibility and Breadth: Personalization With the Common Core

5. Mentoring and Guidance: The Role of Adults

6. Flexible Spaces, Schedules, and Roles: Enabling Personalization

7. Collaboration and Technology: Utilizing External Resources for Personalization

8. Autonomy With Responsibility: Preparing Ethical Entrepreneurs

Key features

Each chapter

· Aligns with a concept from World Class Learners

· Begins with a vignette from a Featured School that illustrates what the chapter theme looks like in a real school setting

· Breaks down the chapter theme into Principles to aid in implementation

· Offers suggestions for how the chapter theme can be implemented at the classroom, school, and district level

· Addresses challenges that might come up when implementing the strategy

· Includes at least two activities that will help educators and students understand how to implement the strategy in their own personal way

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