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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.
Priming Learners Through a Caring Community and Collaborative Classroom Culture : A Prerequisite for Inquiry as Cognitive Apprenticeship (ICA)
Priming Learners Through a Caring Community and Collaborative Classroom Culture : A Prerequisite for Inquiry as Cognitive Apprenticeship (ICA)
Essential Question
How do we create a strong, supportive, and vibrant learning community?
See Lesson Plan Canvas on page 104
How many of you have experienced “first day of school” dreams (or should we say nightmares?) in the nights preceding the start of a new school year? The ones where everything goes remarkably wrong, dragons come out of your teacher closet, and the unbelievable happens? One time, Jackie dreamt that all her fourth graders turned into zoo animals of every shape and size and roamed around the classroom creating havoc! Of course, most of the things that occur in ...
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