Planning powerful instruction, grades 6-12 : 7 must-make moves to transform how we teach--and how students learn /
Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Rachel E. Bear, Adam Fachler.
- xii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
- Corwin literacy; 1 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments About the Authors Introduction PART 1: TRANSFORMATIVE PLANNING AND INSTRUCTION Chapter 1. What’s at Stake? Teaching Toward Expertise— With a Sense of UrgencyChapter 2. Making the Shift From Informational to Transformational Teaching Chapter 3. Introduction to 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 Caring Community and Collaborative Classroom Culture: A Prerequisite “Must-Make Move” for ICA Chapter 7. Framing the Future Challenge: Priming and Orienting Learning Through Essential Questions Chapter 8. Preparing Students for Success: Priming and Orienting Learning Through Frontloading PART 4: WALKING THROUGH, EXTENDING, AND EXPLORING Chapter 9. Seeing Is Believing—and Understanding: Walking Students Through With Visualization Strategies Chapter 10. Navigating New Terrain: Walking Students Through With Think-Aloud Strategies Chapter 11. The Quest Is to Powerfully Question! Walking Students Through Expert Questioning Strategies Chapter 12. Setting Up Learners for Successful Collaboration: Walking Through and Extending Expertise With Collaborative Group Structures Chapter 13. To Speak, to Be Heard, to Listen, and to Learn: Extending Expertise With Discussions That Promote Deeper Understanding PART 5: REFLECTING Chapter 14. Moving Into the Future: Reflecting Through Assessments for and as Learning Chapter 15. Bringing It All Together: Extending, Exploring, and Reflecting Through Culminating Projects and Assessments Concluding Thoughts References and Resources Index
"The authors cite a growing need for cognitive apprenticeship (in which learning is visible in real-life tasks) and guided inquiry to meet the challenges of Next Generation standards - and to truly prepare students for the type of work and citizenship of their future. Many teachers, however, have trouble designing lessons and units that meet these goals because they have been trained in more traditional direct instruction/knowledge-imparting methods. Planning Powerful Instruction provides teachers with a solution: a model for backwards planning and teaching that leads to deeply engaging and joyful learning. The EMPOWER heuristic the authors have developed walks teachers through a 7-step planning process, providing a model for planning units and individual lessons, as well as a cache of inquiry-oriented strategies to meet specific needs immediately. The EMPOWER acronym stands for the following planning and learning stages: Envision a destination Map the mental model and path to mastery Prime for the journey Orient the learning Walk through new skills Extend and Explore new territory Reflect on the journey"--