Full Description
Lead your organization to implement innovative learning environments in which students take ownership so they can achieve at high levels and meet rigorous standards. Students Taking Charge Implementation Guide for Leaders shows you how to inspire, coach, and support teachers to create student-driven classrooms that empower learners through problem-based learning and differentiation, where students pose questions and actively seek answers. Technology is then used seamlessly throughout the day for information, communication, collaboration, and product generation.
You'll find out how to:
Inspire the adaptive change at the core of the Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom, aimed at engaging students;
Understand the structures needed to support its implementation and empower teachers and students;
Employ leadership strategies that will move teachers and students from engagement to empowerment to efficacy.
This new implementation guide for school leaders offers a more detailed look into the key mindset shifts that are critical for leaders of a Learner-Active, Technology-Infused School. With the book's practical examples and step-by-step guidelines, you'll be able to help your teachers implement innovative classrooms immediately.
Contents
Meet the Authors
eResources
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 From Transactional to Transformational
2 From Engagement to Empowerment to Efficacy
3 From Ferry to Bridge
4 From Mandating Change to Inspiring Change
5 From Nodes to Lines
6 From Surface Innovation to Deep Innovation
7 From Office-Based to Classroom-Based
8 From Dissemination to Conversations
9 From Silos to Teams
10 From Dutiful Administrator to Warrior and Advocate
Appendix A - Willing and Able ThinkSheet
Appendix B - CWTES Great Student Rubrics K-2 and 3-5
Appendix C - Faculty Task: Changing the World at CWTES
Appendix D - Vetting Peer Experts and Those to Offer Small-Group, Mini-Lessons
Appendix E - LATIC School Candidate Individual Interview Sample Questions
Appendix F - ZPD ThinkSheet
Appendix G - Flow ThinkSheet
Appendix H - Co-Teaching ThinkSheet
Appendix I - Team Norms
