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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.
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Table of Content
AcknowledgmentsAbout 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
About the author
Adam Fachler is a strategist, coach, and consultant for Pre-K-12 teachers and educational leaders throughout New York. Formerly a middle school teacher, staff developer, and intern principal, he left the classroom in 2014 to co-found the School in the Square, a public charter school in Washington Heights. In addition to creating the EMPOWER framework, Adam is also a leading expert in Thinking Maps®—a visual language for learning—and leads acclaimed regional certification workshops in the methodology. In all his work, Adam strives to provide educators with the engaging professional development that they deserve. Adam lives with his wife Liz in Brooklyn, NY.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 296 ● ISBN 9781544342870 ● File size 11.8 MB ● Publisher SAGE Publications ● City Thousand Oaks ● Country US ● Published 2019 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7202017 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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