Full Description
Finally— a roadmap for growing students' confidence and competence in learning.
We strive to empower our students to lead their own inquiry, discover knowledge, and construct approaches to solving real-life challenges. Often, though, we make the mistake of designing learning experiences that burden students with the unrealistic expectation of expertise that hasn't yet been developed. The solution: proper scaffolding for surface, deep, and transfer learning.
Building upon the groundwork from Michael McDowell's book Rigorous PBL by Design, this new resource provides practices that strategically support students as they move from novices to experts in core academics. You'll learn high-impact strategies that ensure students develop ownership and confidence in their learning, plus essential tools to build your own efficacy and support your colleagues in building collective expertise. Chock full of mission-critical guidance, this book
Provides an actionable framework for developing student expertise
Offers practical strategies, tools, and routines for creating a culture that cultivates expertise and builds student efficacy
Gives a simple, effective unit and lesson template that clarifies the steps students must take to build, deepen, and apply core content knowledge and skills
Ensures your students' progress in their learning through a process for selecting instructional, feedback, and learning strategies
Includes strategies for improving your professional expertise individually and collectively
"As educators, we are challenged to prepare our students for college and career readiness as they go into the real world. Developing Expert Learners addresses the intentional moves of the teacher to prepare students for challenging work at their level of learning, resulting in students reaching their fullest potential as experts in their own learning."
Elizabeth Alvarez, Chief of Schools
Chicago Public Schools
Contents
List of Online Resources
Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the Author
A Teacher's Perspective
Introduction
Chapter 1. Guiding Actions for Expertise and Efficacy
The 5Cs: Guiding Actions for Developing Student Expertise
Putting Principles of Expertise Into Practice Successfully
Conclusion
Chapter 2. Conditions for Impact: Creating a Culture of Collective Efficacy
Culture of Learning
Recurring Problems
Defining Efficacy
Evidence of Efficacy
Teaching Strategies for Developing Student Efficacy
Conclusion
Chapter 3. Planning for Impact
Focused Design
Unit Planning: Five Design Steps
Planning Process
Conclusion
Chapter 4. Teaching for Impact
Illuminating the Hidden Understandings of Learners
Establishing Routines
Expertise-Based Strategies
Sequencing Developing Expertise Routines
Conclusion
Chapter 5. Collective Efficacy: Developing Efficacy and Expertise as Professionals
Linking Professional and Student Efficacy
Designing Core Tasks for Professionals to Impact Learning
Creating a Process for Collective Learning Through Teaming
Structuring the Methods for Determining, Discussing, Debating, and Designing Next Steps for Improvement
Conclusion
Conclusion
Afterword
Resources
Conditions for Impact Resources
Planning for Impact Resources
Teaching for Impact Resources
Collective Efficacy: Developing Efficacy and Expertise as Professionals
References
Index
