Description
Your single-best way to nurture higher-order thinking
With all the pressure to accelerate instruction, how can we possibly find the time to encourage students to do some serious thinking? With Facilitating Authentic Learning, Laura Thomas provides the answer: through constructivist, experiential teaching methods. Grade 6–12 teachers will learn how to:
- Plan learning experiences that teach content and process at the same time
- Assess students' development of 21st-century skills
- Coach students to do the hard work of authentic learning while providing support
- Teach reflection techniques that help students learn from experiences and mistakes
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Boxes
Foreword by Jill Davidson
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
Meet the Facilitators
1. What is Next Generation Instruction?
2. Laying the Groundwork: Building a Collaborative Learning Community
3. Aiming: Gaining Clarity
4. Framing and Gaming
5. Claiming and Exclaiming: Reflection
6. Tips, Activities, and Tools for Next Generation Instruction: Gaming, Claiming, and Exclaiming
7. Assessment
8. Conclusion
Appendix: Additional Resources
References
Index
