Description
Practical strategies to take your students' understanding from "So what?" to "Wow!"
Based on current brain research and information about differentiated learning, this book for Grades 4–12 outlines the Deeper Learning Cycle (DELC), a teaching model that applies learning and content processing techniques to everyday instruction. This resource features:
- Chapters explaining the cycle's seven stages, including standards and curriculum, building a positive learning culture, acquiring new knowledge, processing learning, and evaluating student learning
- A lesson plan template to apply to daily instruction
- Strategies to help students process content in meaningful ways
- Reflection questions to help teachers apply the material to their own practice
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
1. Beneath the Surface: Exploring the Deeper Learning Cycle (DELC)
DELC Model Introduced
Standards & Objectives of the Book
Part I. Preparing for Learning
2. Preparing for Deeper Learning
DELC Step #1. Planning the Standards & Curriculum
DELC Step #2. Pre-Assessing
DELC Step #3. Building a Positive Learning Culture
3. Activating Prior Knowledge and Acquiring New Knowledge
DELC Step #4. Priming & Activating Prior Knowledge
DELC Step #5. Acquiring Prior Knowledge
Part II. Processing the Content
4. Processing With a Purpose
DELC Step #6. Processing the Content
5. Processing Strategies Galore
DELC Step #6. Processing the Content
Part III. Putting It All Together
6. The Lesson Planning Guide
DELC Step #7. Evaluating the Student Learning
7. Processing Must-Have Tips
Bibliography
Index
