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 Mc Dowell’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
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
Содержание
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
Об авторе
Michael Mc Dowell, Ed D was a public school educator for eighteen years serving in the roles of classroom teacher, academic and athletic coach, school principal, assistant superintendent of personnel and instruction, and superintendent. During his tenure as a superintendent, his school district received state and national accolades including the National Blue Ribbon Award which recognized their work for student performance and mental health and well-being in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic by the U.S. Department of Education.Dr. Mc Dowell serves on numerous boards, served as a college professor, and worked for non-profit organizations to enhance student learning around the world. Over the course of his career, Dr. Mc Dowell has authored bestselling books, created professional learning programs and workbooks, provided keynotes and workshops, and provided practical tools and resources for thousands of teachers and leaders on almost every continent around the world. A prolific author and consultant, Dr. Mc Dowell is recognized as one of the leading authorities on integrating innovative and impactful practices into schools. Offering keynotes and executive coaching to heads of school around the world, he partners with educational leaders to implement high leverage strategies that will enhance teaching and learning in classrooms, schools, and systems through his work with Hinge Education.