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Book SynopsisAre 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments About the Authors Introduction PART 1: TRANSFORMATIVE PLANNING AND INSTRUCTION Chapter 1. What’s at Stake? Teaching Toward Expertise With a Sense of Urgency Chapter 2. Making the Shift From Informational to Transformational Teaching Chapter 3. Introducing the EMPOWER Canvas PART 2: ENVISIONING AND MAPPING Chapter 4. Envisioning the Destination Through Principled Planning Protocols Chapter 5. Mapping the Path to Mastery Through Task Deconstruction PART 3: PRIMING AND ORIENTING Chapter 6. Priming Learners Through a Caring Community and Collaborative Classroom Culture: A Prerequisite for Inquiry as Cognitive Apprenticeship (ICA) Chapter 7. Priming and Orienting Learners Through Essential Questions Chapter 8. Priming and Orienting Learners Through Frontloading PART 4: WALKING THROUGH, EXTENDING, AND EXPLORING Chapter 9. Walking Learners Through With Visualization Strategies Chapter 10. Walking Learners Through With Think-Aloud Strategies Chapter 11. Walking Learners Through With Questioning Chapter 12. Extending Expertise With Collaborative Group Structures Chapter 13. Extending Expertise by Promoting Deep Discussion PART 5: REFLECTING Chapter 14. Reflecting Through Formative Assessments and to Cultivate a Spirit of Transfer Chapter 15. Putting It All Together: Pursuing Real-World Culminating Projects and Performance-Based Summative Assessments Concluding Thoughts: What’s Next? An EMPOWERed Vision of Our Future Teaching and Learning References Index
